Daniel L. Kloeffler (born January 1, 1976) is an American television journalist. Since 2010, he has been an

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, a cable-news channel of the

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broadcasting network.

Early life

Kloeffler graduated from Algonac High School in

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, in 1994. He graduated from the

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, in 1999.

Career

He worked at

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-affiliated television station in

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prior to joining

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, a cable-news channel. While at MSNBC, he anchored overnight ''MSNBC Now'' news updates as well as MSNBC's '' First Look'' and broadcast network NBC's ''

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'', both early-morning news programs; Kloeffler left MSNBC in 2009. In 2010, he became a freelance anchor and correspondent for

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, where he anchors on its ABC News Now channel.

References

1976 births ABC News personalities American television news anchors Journalists from Michigan Journalists from New York City Living people American LGBT journalists Place of birth missing (living people) MSNBC people NBC News people People from Algonac, Michigan University of New Hampshire alumni Writers from New Hampshire LGBT people from Michigan {{US-journalist-1970s-stub