Steve Daley (1948 – October 2, 2011) was a newspaper journalist, best known for his work as political correspondent for the Chicago Tribune between 1988 and 1996.
[1] He attended Corning Community College before moving on to study at American University in Washington, D.C., where he earned a BA in political science.
Whilst working in a restaurant, "The Class Reunion" that was popular with Washington's politicians and journalists, Daley met and struck up a friendship with David Burgin who recruited him to be a sports reporter for the Palo Alto Times.
[1] Daley spent seven years as part of the White House Press Corps before leaving to join public relations company Porter Novelli in 1996.
[1] 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,[2] he left to found his own PR firm.