Dan Kloeffler is an American television journalist. He has worked as an anchor

News presenter

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 on WSTM-TV

WSTM-TV

WSTM-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Central New York State licensed to Syracuse. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter on Sentinel Heights Road in LaFayette. The station can also be seen on Verizon FiOS channel 3 and Time Warner channel 4...

, MSNBC

MSNBC

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, and, currently, ABC News

ABC News

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.

Early life

Kloeffler graduated from Algonac High School in Algonac, Michigan

Algonac, Michigan

Algonac is a city in St. Clair County of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,613 at the 2000 census.Algonac is located at the southern end of the St. Clair River, just before it splits into a large delta region known as the St. Clair Flats. The St. Clair River drains Lake Huron into...

, in 1994. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1999.

Career

Formerly an anchor

News presenter

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 on MSNBC

MSNBC

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, a cable news

United States cable news

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 network, Kloeffler anchored overnight MSNBC Now news updates as well as First Look

First Look

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and on NBC

NBC

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's Early Today

Early Today

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. He joined MSNBC from WSTM-TV

WSTM-TV

WSTM-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Central New York State licensed to Syracuse. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter on Sentinel Heights Road in LaFayette. The station can also be seen on Verizon FiOS channel 3 and Time Warner channel 4...

 in Syracuse, New York

Syracuse, New York

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 in 2007 and left the network in 2009.

In 2010 Dan became a freelance anchor and correspondent for ABC News

ABC News

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. He has been anchoring on the ABC News Now

ABC News Now

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 channel.

Personal life

In response to the news that actor Zachary Quinto

Zachary Quinto

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 had come out

Coming out

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 as gay, Kloeffler publicly came out on the air in October 2011. In a statement on the ABC News website, he wrote that a series of suicides by gay youth also led him to hope his being publicly out would help encourage young gay people struggling to accept themselves.

He lives in New York City

New York City

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, New York

New York

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