Dan Peres (born October 14, 1971)
Early life and education
Dan Peres grew up in
Baltimore, later attending New York University (NYU) where he graduated with degrees in Journalism and American History. While in college, he was an editor at the student newspaper Washington Square News, worked as a copy boy at
The New York Times, and later as a research assistant at
Esquire.
Career
W Magazine
Peres spent nine years at
W magazine magazine. He worked his way from Assistant Editor to European Editor, overseeing W's bureaus in Paris (where he lived for three years), London, and Milan.
Details Magazine
Peres became editor of
Details in 2000 after the magazine was relaunched.
Since then, the magazine has won two ASME Awards for Design and earned several other nominations, including General Excellence. In 2003, Advertising Age named Details as an A-List Magazine and MIN magazine included Peres as one of its "21 Most Intriguing People" of the year. He has brought such writers and columnists as
Michael Chabon,
Anderson Cooper, Matt McAllester, Simon Dumenco, and
Rick Moody to the magazine, along with top-tier photographers like Norman Jean Roy, Matthias Vriens-McGrath, Michael Thompson, and Steven Klein. In 2007, Peres authored
Details Men's Style Manual: The Ultimate Guide for Making Your Clothes Work for You, published by Gotham Books. For the magazine's September 2011 publication, Peres commissioned
Ashton Kutcher to guest-edit
Details’ first ever Social Issue, which lives on multiple online platforms.
Gawker
In March 2019, Peres was announced as
Gawkers editor-in-chief for their relaunch but was laid off in July 2019.
Author of As Needed for Pain
In February 2020, Harper, an imprint of
HarperCollins, published Peres' memoir,
As Needed for Pain, in which he detailed his addiction to
vicodin and other opioids until he cleaned up in 2007.
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Ad Age & Modern Healthcare
In July 2020, Peres was named as the editor-in-chief of
Ad Age
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Ad Age was elevated to associate publisher of the brand.
In June 2022, Peres was named president of
Ad Age, and retained his position as editor-in-chief.
In January 2023, Crain Communications named Peres president of
Modern Healthcare.
Personal life
Dan Peres was married to Australian actress
Sarah Wynter.
The couple split in 2014 after having three children.
