Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

Danny Wood is the News Editor of Insurance Business Australia in Sydney, where he leads daily coverage of the Australian general insurance market — including brokers, underwriting agencies, regulators and reinsurers — and contributes to Key Media's Insurance Business platforms in New Zealand, Asia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

With a career spanning more than two decades across broadcast, print and digital journalism, Danny has reported from Sydney, London, Madrid and San Francisco. He cut his teeth presenting an ABC Regional Radio morning show in Tamworth, produced news at the BBC World Service in London, spent seven years as a BBC foreign correspondent based in Madrid and went on to anchor a daily international news programme on public radio in the US. His reports have aired on flagship programmes including ABC Radio National's Saturday Extra, the BBC World Service's Newshour and the BBC News Channel. He has also taught the craft as an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Saint Louis University and his insurance reporting won a 2025 APEX Grand Award for writing.

Alongside hard news, Danny has built a parallel specialism in wine journalism as a former Editor of Midwest Wine Press and a contributor to US-based WineMaker Magazine.

Outside of his editorial work, Danny is, arguably, an aspiring winemaker and guitarist.

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