Penny Daniels Biography
Penny Daniels is an American speechwriter, writer, coach in communications, and former news anchor on television. Daniels started her career in 1980 at the Green Bay, Wisconsin, CBS station. She later relocated to Buffalo, New York, where she worked as a reporter and anchor for the ABC affiliate, WKBW-TV.
Age
Penny was born Elizabeth Penny Comm on December 1954, in Highland Park, Illinois, United States of America. She is 69 years old as of December 2023.
Education
She graduated from Northwestern University with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism in 1980 after receiving her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1977. She gives her brother Benjamin Comm of West Virginia a lot of credit for her accomplishments.
Husband- Children
She has not gone public with her relationship. However, It is not known whether she is married, engaged, divorced, or single. However, Daniels has two grown daughters, both of whom live in New York City. She lives in Chicago.
Career
Daniels started her career in 1980 at the Green Bay, Wisconsin, CBS station. She later relocated to Buffalo, New York, where she worked as a reporter and anchor for the ABC affiliate, WKBW-TV. After that, she relocated to Washington, D.C., where she worked as an anchor and reporter for the ABC station WJLA-TV from 1985 until 1988. Daniels worked as a solo anchor at WSVN-TV in Miami in the late 1980s and early 1990s. There, she became the first female anchor of the nationally syndicated tabloid-style magazine show Inside Story, which was rebranded as “Inside Report.” Even though the show was only on from 1989 to 1990, local ratings showed that it was very successful in Miami, where it outperformed the well-known A Current Affair, which was hosted by Maury Povich at the time and broadcast on rival station WCIX-TV.
Daniels began working as an anchor and reporter for Chicago, Illinois’s WBBM-TV in April 1993. Daniels and Joan Lovett took over as the anchors of the station’s new noon broadcast in the middle of 1993. Daniels departed from WBBM in September 1994 to become a weekday host in New York for A Current Affair. Up until September 1995, she was the show’s host. After that, she became the show’s weekend anchor and a correspondent for the program’s weekday broadcasts. The program ended its run in 1996. Daniels started working for Spokane, Washington’s KHQ-TV in 1998. Daniels left the TV news industry in October 2000 to work in Washington, D.C. as a trainer and consultant in communications. In 2003, Daniels and two partners created the communications consulting and coaching firm, 3D Communications, with offices located across the country. Daniels also interviewed infamous criminal Charles Manson in 1989.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.