Dalton Delan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dalton Delan
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Aug 5, 1954(1954-08-05)
Age	70
Birthplace	Manhattan
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Leo

Dalton Delan Biography

Dalton Delan is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on August 5, 1954 in Manhattan, New York, United States.

Dalton Delan (born August 5, 1954) is an American writer, syndicated columnist, and television producer. He pens his syndicated column, the Unspin Room, for the Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper The Berkshire Eagle . His work with PBS and Sundance have won him numerous awards for documentaries and primetime shows. A number of his projects include working alongside notable figures like actor Robert Redford, Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Delan oversaw the production of sixteen In Performance at the White House programs in collaboration with the Obama administration, as well as several under the Bush and Clinton administrations years prior. As executive producer, Delan brought music giants like Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach, and Carole King to the White House. The final program under the Obama administration, The Smithsonian Salutes Ray Charles, is documented on Youtube as “WETA at the White House”, features singers like Demi Lovato, Usher, and Anthony Hamilton. Delan was an executive producer of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, presented by the Kennedy Center to notable names in humor and comedy. Delan was also co-creator and was an executive producer of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Music, whose first recipient, Paul Simon, was presented the award in a ceremony at the Warner Theater. Delan’s most recent work has him as the managing director and chief content officer of One Mind All Media, the media division for the brain health non-profit One Mind.

Delan got his start in television in 1979, working for ABC News in the ABC News Closeup documentary unit under Pamela Hill. There, he helped produce investigative reports with several big names in media, including a film featuring writer and historian William Manchester, and hosts Hugh Downs, Peter Jennings, and Barbara Walters. Titles that Delan worked on include “After the Sexual Revolution” and “Growing Old in America”. “Rain of Terror”, another of Delan’s works, was deemed by a Wall Street Journal editorial as “the single best piece of television journalism we’ve ever witnessed.”

Dalton Delan Net Worth

Dalton Delan is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dalton Delan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Delan writes a biweekly syndicated column, The Unspin Room, for Pulitzer Prize-winning daily, The Berkshire Eagle, whose roots reach back to 1789. Delan’s column explores the intersection of culture, media, current events, and institutional memory.

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From late 1998 to late 2019, Delan was the Executive Vice President and Chief Programming Officer of WETA Washington D.C., which he took from third to second largest producing station for PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), and the flagship public television station in the nation’s capital. At WETA, Delan worked with Sharon Percy Rockefeller, wife of John Davison “Jay” Rockefeller IV, retired senior Senator from West Virginia. In 1999, Ken Bode’s contract as moderator on the popular news discussion talk show, “Washington Week in Review” was not renewed. Despite criticism from Bode and his supporters, Delan held his ground in the ensuing media firestorm, and temporarily brought back long-time moderator Paul Duke before naming journalist Gwen Ifill as moderator. This move would help create a newly successful Washington Week with Gwen Ifill. Upon Ifill’s death, Delan brought in Washington Post reporter Robert Costa as moderator. Delan collaborated with Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of Robert Kennedy, on an adaptation of her book Speak Truth to Power, which was filmed onstage at the Kennedy Center, with readings by Sigourney Weaver, John Malkovich and a number of other distinguished actors. Delan also served as Executive in Charge of Production for WETA on the films of Ken Burns. In 2003, Jerry Nachman, then-New York Post editor and editor-in-chief of MSNBC, called Delan “the so-called father of reality TV.”

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Delan attended Phillips Exeter Academy alongside subsequent music, film, and television veterans Bobby Shriver, Miles Chapin and Benmont Tench (former keyboard player for the late Tom Petty). Upon early graduation from Exeter, Delan attended Columbia University in New York, making the Dean’s List both semesters. As a sophomore, Delan was recruited to Princeton University as part of an effort to strengthen the English Department’s student body. During his academic career at Princeton University, Delan was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, and won the Junior English Prize, as well as the Senior Thesis Prize in English. He was an active journalist during this time, writing for the Henry David Thoreau Journal, as editor of The Nassau Lit, and as a writer and critic for The Daily Princetonian. Delan graduated from Princeton University Summa Cum Laude in 1976. Following college, Delan began his career as a staff writer and editor for Time-Life Books, first in Manhattan and then in Washington D.C.