Josh Daniel
Senior Strategist (of counsel)
At Pyramid:
Josh Daniel uses his extensive background in web editorial, education, children’s and parenting content, and not-for-profit work to develop strategy and create content for Pyramid’s interactive and editorial teams. Josh brings over 20 years of media expertise to Pyramid, including award-winning websites and documentaries for PBS, Sesame Workshop, and the National Academy of Sciences. From the early days of the Internet to today, Josh has developed, edited and launched more than 50 websites for not-for-profit and for-profit organizations.
Josh’s recent projects include Pyramid’s parent education kits for the Talaris Institute and proposal development on various new business initiatives.
After Hours:
Josh has a passion for Iyengar Yoga, parent-child communication, and politics. The yoga keeps him sane (mentally and physically), communicating helps him handle his kids, and politics keeps him on track to make the world a better place. He shares his life with two dogs, one cat, two kids and his amazing wife, Emily.
Background:
Josh has served as an executive editor/writer/producer for clients in the Northwest and around the nation, PBS (PBS Parents, PBS Kids, KCTS, Oregon Public Broadcasting), Microsoft, Sesame Workshop, Sterling Publishers-Barnes & Noble, Portland’s Metro, The One Economy Corporation, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and Scholastic. Recently, Josh supervised the editorial content for the redesign of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s website. As the president of Content Inventions, Josh served as creator/executive producer of the PBS online “Parents’ Guides to Talking with Kids” and “Parents’ Guide to School,” and “I Was Wondering…,” a book and website kids’ experience for NAS. As Senior Editor as Sesame Workshop, he created Sesame Solutions, a cross-platform series for parents and children based on wisdom of” Sesame Street”. He has also produced TV documentaries and news magazines for WGBH (“Children of War”), WNET (“Rights & Wrongs”), Progressive Asset Management, and TV Nation; and executive produced a recent 40 segment webisode series for MSN, Cool Runnings. Other awards include the 2009 W3 Award for Cool Runnings, the Webby Award, Best of the Web, Parents’ Choice Cool Site of the Day, Project Censored, and the National Educational Film & Video Festival Silver Apple. His articles have been published in The Nation, FAIR’s Extra! and Sesame Street Parents.
Josh holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Empire State College and has done graduate work at the New School University and the American Film Institute.