When
he's not recording jazz/funk-infused indie music, New York
native Dan
Ackerman is a former radio DJ turned journalist, and has covered video games,
gadgets,
nightlife, and music for publications such as SPIN, Blender, The Hollywood Reporter, PC Magazine, USA Today and WWE Magazine.
Dan is currently a Senior Editor at CNET.com
and a
semi-regular TV talking head on outlets including Fox News,
CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Reuters TV, BBC News and NY1.
|
tales out of night school |
Click
over to www.talesoutofnightschool.com
for Dan's third album of jazz/soul-infused indie music, available now at Amazon, iTunes and everywhere music is sold online.
| digital city and editor's office hours |
Dan currently hosts two progams for CNET. Digital City is a weekly audio podcast about technology and urban living, and Editor's Office Hours
is a live 30-minute video webcast where different CNET editors answer
viewer questions (Dan can be seen on the NYC edition of Office Hours).
|
play value |
Dan
is currently a regular on Play Value, a new show about video game
history from On Networks. It's available for free
on iTunes, or at PlayValue.tv.
Here's a sample episode.
|
discography |
Dan
released two indie albums in 2001.
This
Moment Has
Happened
Before and Third
World Order both came out under the Helper Monkey
Records
imprint, and both are still available on iTunes, Napster, Amazon and
pretty
much every place else you’d order music online.
This
Moment Has Happened Before (2001)
>iTunes
>Amazon
>M.A. in
Public Communications from Fordham University
>Co-Founder of women's gaming site GameGal.com, named
one of PC Magazine's Top 100 Web sites for 2003
>Co-created the infamous Gary
Coleman Webathon [archived
here] as
Senior Editor for UGO.com
>Wrote weekly nightlife column in the Tribune-owned
newspaper amNewYork (2004-2005)
>Editor-in-Chief of Clubplanet.com,
2001-2005
>Founding Editor of Clubplanet Magazine, nationally distributed
nightlife publication.
>Member of Mensa
>Graduate of the Bronx High School of Science
>Regular cast member on PlayValue
and Best Game Ever
| contact |
danackermannyc
[at] gmail [dotcom]
| Media Appearances |
Dan does a handful of radio, TV and print media hits every week. Here are select recent highlights.
>Reuters
Highly-Anticipated "Grand Theft Auto 4" Hits The Shelves
[Link]
>NY1
Highly-Anticipated "Grand Theft Auto 4" Hits The Shelves
[Link]
>Marketplace (NPR)
Revving up for Grand Theft Auto IV
[Link]
4.11.08
>WBZ, Boston (and others)
Music Downloaders Tricked
[Link]
[This was a syndicated news package that aired on more than 20 local
affiliates nationwide]
4.10.08
>WJFK - Big O and Dukes Show
Tech talk and taking phone calls
[Link]
4.2.08
>Fox Business Channel
iPhone vs. Blackberry
[Link]
4.1.08
>Spin Magazine
GTA IV and video game morality
[Link]