Dan Tynan
- Freelance Journalist, Writer and Editor, Freelance
- Founder and Contributor, The Tynan Files
Awards
National Magazine Award
1999 - Single Topic Series, Best Single Issue
OK, I didn't win. But I was a finalist twice -- once for a series on Internet Privacy that ran in PC World in 1998 (I was special issue editor), one for the September 2002 issue of Popular Science (I wrote one of the features for that one, which was nominated for best single issue). Does that count? The good news: I got to sit right behind Martha Stewart at the 1999 awards ceremony. She never turned around.
Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Award
1995 - Business journalism
I have won all or part of 8 Neal Awards, in a range of categories -- including two Grand Neals for best overall entry -- mostly for PC World. The ones I remember are an investigative story into how the top 5 computer vendors make and support computers (1995 - Grand Neal), a 1996 investigative story into a ring of criminals who were scavenging computers for RAM (then a very costly commodity) and selling it, a 1999 special issue on Internet Privacy that I oversaw (that won a Grand Neal and was also a finalist for a National Magazine Award), and a 2000 series of articles about the Internet. There may have been one or two others. I also shared a Neal Award for best front of book section for Sales & Marketing Management Magazine, back in 2003, I believe.
Western Publications Association 'Maggie'
2002 - Online Column
My CNET column about Internet service providers, Inside @ccess, won the WPA's award for best online column two years running -- 2002 and 2003. They were the first two editorial awards ever won by CNET.
American Society of Business Press Editors
2006 - Best Original Web Feature
Won an ASBPE Gold Award for my work on the PCworld.com story, "50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years." I also won two bronze awards that year, for ComputerWorld and InfoWorld. And lord knows how many other ASBPEs over the years -- it's really hard to keep track of these things.
Folio Eddie & Ozzie Award
2019 - Best Parenting/Family Column
Kind of like Tiger Woods capturing the Masters decades after his glory years, this award landed in my lap for a column I wrote for Family Circle (RIP 1932 - 2019) about the value of vocational (careers and technical) education. OK, maybe not like Tiger Woods, exactly.