Veteran journalist Dan Anderson has joined the Business Journal as news editor.
Anderson will report on technology and other high-profile subjects as well as help with production of the paper and its Web site.
Since 2001, Anderson was business editor of the Los Angeles Daily News in Woodland Hills. He led the business reporting staff in coverage of companies such as Amgen Inc., Walt Disney Co. and Countrywide Financial Corp.
In particular, Anderson led the paper’s coverage of Comcast Corp.’s unsuccessful $54 billion bid for Disney in 2004.
He also directed the paper’s coverage of consumer news, real estate and workplace issues.
Before becoming business editor, Anderson worked as an assistant metro editor at the Daily News.
His past work includes editing and reporting stints at daily newspapers in California, Arizona and Texas. Anderson’s reporting work has been recognized by the American Bar Association, California Bar Association, Society of Professional Journalists and others.
A native of the Inland Empire, Anderson studied sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and briefly followed his passion for music into the radio broadcast booth.
Since then, he’s compiled an extensive music collection.
One of his greatest personal moments: sitting in Studio A at the famed Capitol Records building in Hollywood, the same recording studio used by Frank Sinatra and the Beatles.
In his spare time, Anderson is likely found on a hiking trail or in the water.
He is an avid adventure traveler, having recently returned from snorkeling reefs and kayaking in a bioluminescent bay in the Caribbean island of Vieques and hiking in the El Yunque rainforest in Puerto Rico.
Anderson recently relocated from Studio City to Huntington Beach, where he used to surf and may hit the waves again.
