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Endpoint: Derick J. Daniels



created on: 4/09/2024
by: Lo55o (13351)
 
 

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Derick J. Daniels (born December 6, c. 1929 in Washington DC, USA - died February 5, 2005 in Miami, Florida, USA (aged 76)) was the former newspaper executive who helped steer Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire through difficult times in 1970's.

The son of the family that owned the Raleigh News & Observer until the 1990s, he was a 1950 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He married in 1950, Elizabeth Long Blalock.
Daniels began his career as a reporter for the Durham Herald. During the early 1950s, he also worked for the St. Petersburg Times and the Atlanta Constitution.
In 1955, he became an editor at the Miami Herald, rising to the post of city editor. Next, he moved to a newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, where he was city editor until 1967 and vice president and executive editor from 1967 until 1973.
During the mid-1970s, Daniels headed Knight News Services (now Knight-Ridder), and it was while there that Playboy founder Hugh Hefner selected him to rescue the struggling magazine. Playboy Enterprises had overextended itself, and Daniels reigned in its expenditures by selling off some of its interests while investing more efficiently in core businesses, such as the magazine and the Playboy clubs. He also helped train Hefner's daughter to take over editorship of the magazine.
Daniels left Playboy in 1982, working on such magazines as One Woman, Vegas, Ocean Drive, and Ocean Drive Español.
In 2001 he became a partner in TerraTran L.L.C., a real estate development company in Ormond Beach, Florida.
Derick J. Daniels died of lung cancer at his home in Miami.
He was survived by his third wife, Lee Vranes Daniels; two sons from his first marriage, Leigh C., of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Scott J., of Baltimore; and a brother, Dr. Worth B. Daniels of Baltimore.
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Submitted by : Lo55o (13351)
on : 04/09/2024