Background
Daley was born in Corning, New York in 1948.
Daley was born in Corning, New York in 1948.
He attended Corning Community College before moving on to study at American University in Washington, District of Columbia
Where he earned a Bachelor in Political science. Following his university graduation, Daley worked as a freelance journalist, supplementing his income by taking bartending work. Daley left California in 1981 having been offered a role as a sports reporter on the Chicago Tribune, a role which also saw him provide sports reports for World's Greatest Newspaper Radio.
During his time at the Tribune, he also worked as a columnist and television critic before being promoted to be national political correspondent in 1988.
Daley spent seven years as part of the White House Press Corps before leaving to join public relations company Porter Novelli in 1996. After thirteen years there, during which he also moonlighted for a short period as an adjunct professor on the Master"s course in Communications at Johns Hopkins University, he left to found his own Puerto Rico firm.
Additional journalism work included (amongst others) contributions to the Washingtonian and the San Francisco Chronicle and the newspaper based comic strip Shoe.