John McManus

About John McManus

John McManus, founder of The Builder’s Daily in 2021, hasdeveloped TBD with a mission to empower homebuilding senior executives toachieve sustained high performance by connecting them with best practices,solutions, and tools that drive operational efficiency, leadership excellence,and customer satisfaction. He joins HW Media as the newly-acquired title’sPublisher, leading the development of HW Media’s homebuildingvertical — including The Builder’s Daily and the Focus on Excellenceevent.

John McManus’ Experience

 John McManus is a business-building, editorial and digitalcontent strategist, with four decades of award-winning experience in New York-in Washington, DC-based media organizations. He worked at Hanley Wood Media for16 years, where until mid-2020, he served as Vice President, Editorial Directorfor the Residential Content Group. In that role, accountability included Builderdigital, print, and in-person editorial and programming portfolio, as well asstrategic content direction and team leader management for Affordable HousingFinance, Aquatics International, Big Builder, Custom Home, the Journal of LightConstruction, Multifamily Executive, Pool & Spa News, Professional DeckBuilder, ProSales, Remodeling, Replacement Contractor, and Tools of the Trade.Prior to his joining the Hanley Wood team in 2004, John led editorial directionfor Primedia’s American Demographics, Folio:, and Cable World titles. Earlier,he was founding editor of Adweek Magazine’s BrandWeek, as well as working as areporter at Ad Age.

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