Dee Daniels

Entrepreneur

Dee Daniels is a veteran in both print and broadcast. She began her career as a radio news reporter in Charleston West Virginia covering politics and government at the state capital. Dee later worked at WCHS as a news reporter, and WBES easy listening station as a host.

Returning to Chicago her home, she worked as an afternoon host at WKDC Jazz in Elmhurst. She interned for WNUA and produced the morning and afternoon shows.

 Finally landing a position on air at WJPC an important stop in her career because the late John H, Johnson would become an important mentor and encourage her to think of one day owning a publication. Following the sale of the WJPC Dee remained at 950 AM gospel, and later was moved to WEJM as late night on air host.

With a passion for broadcast, yet a yearning for news Dee returned to her news roots as a Journalist in the North West Suburbs at the Downers Grove Reporter, and later Liberty Suburban News Group where she covered local government, education, business and community events.

Wanting to serve her community as a journalist Dee returned to the city and landed a Job at the Chicago Tribune covering police beats, politics and community. Realizing there were stories to be told and legacy to print Dee began plans to start her own News Publication “Noir Woman News,” which she launched in 2004 featuring the first cover story on now First Lady Michelle Obama.

In 2008-2010 Noir Woman News launched as a monthly insert in the Chicago Sun Times Newspapers with a readership of over 600,000 per month.  Im 2009 the publication went online only.

Realizing the changes taking place in print and bradcast media she decided to take a course in Ruby and Rails, although she learned the basic she was not the best in programming, but it helped her on the quest to build her first platform for her next venture. 

In 2012 Noir Woman Ad Network launched as a platoform for advertisers and publishers.

Dee launched  Appdly , a platform developimg mobile websites and apps for small to medium sized businesses .

January 2012 Dee launched Digital Diva 2.0 Women in Technology, a website covering women start ups, and also promoting networking events with panels, guest speakers and consulting to female led start-ups. The long term goal is to create a accelerator program for women start-ups and provide funding for select start ups completing our training- mentoring program.

2013 Noir Woman Ad Network became part of FEMAFY which serves as anchor for all of our niche womens channels including Asian, Hispanic, African American and ethnic niches. 

Dee is a member of National Association of Black Journalist Chicago, a board member of the Association of Women Journalist, and a National member of Women impacting public policy.  In  2007 Dee was named one of Who’s Who in Black Chicago Media. She was nominated for a Chicago ITA City Lights award in 2012, and also nominated for a Chicago Innovation award in 2013. 

Presently she continues to build her online brand of multi media products marrying traditional media with technology targeting niche female markets providing print, video and audio content and platforms serving the comapnies multicultural womens channels. 

Dee's favorite place is the water, and she could really see having an office floating along a coast, but since that won't happen she decided to relocate to the coast in California.  She loves working with children and often donates time painting faces like Spiderman, Batman and Hello Kitty in the urban communtes for back to school events. She also promotes events focused on women in technology with her news website Digital Dive 2.0