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- Daniel "Danny" Concannon es un corresponsal ficticio del Washington Post en la Casa Blanca interpretado por Timothy Busfield en la serie de televisión El Ala Oeste de la Casa Blanca. La primera aparición del personaje de Danny tiene lugar en el tercer capítulo de la primera temporada, "Una respuesta proporcional", donde menciona que lleva los últimos siete años como periodista encargado de cubrir las informaciones de la Casa Blanca, además de haber seguido la campaña de Bartlet para las elecciones de 1998. Independientemente del romance lleno de altibajos que mantiene con la Secretaria de Prensa de la Casa Blanca y posterior Jefa de Gabinete C.J. Cregg, Danny parece ser el corresponsal en la Casa Blanca que más simpatiza con la administración encabezada por el Presidente Josiah Bartlet, con quien mantiene una buena relación, así como con miembros de su equipo como son el Jefe de Gabinete Leo McGarry, el Asistente Personal del Presidente Charlie Young y, en particular, el Adjunto al Jefe de Gabinete Josh Lyman. Sin embargo, Danny ha sido el primero en sacar a la luz algunas de las historias más controvertidas surgidas en la Casa Blanca de Bartlet, además de mostrar cierta disposición para criticar al gabinete si lo cree adecuado. En su primera aparición le dice a C.J. que sabe que Sam Seaborn tiene por amiga a una señorita de compañía, aunque finalmente decide dejarlo correr, aunque advierte a C.J. diciéndole: "no todos son tan buenos chicos como yo", predicción que se haría cierta cuando un tabloide publicó la historia un meses después. En los últimos capítulos de la primera temporada la figura de Danny se vuelve destacada por haber conseguido un informe redactado por la Asesora de Medios Mandy Hampton cuando trabajaba para un oponente. El documento en cuestión enumeraba todas las debilidades y deficiencias de la administración Bartlet. Aunque C.J. suplicó a Danny que no publicase la historia, esta vez consideró que el hecho sí era noticia y debía difundirlo, lo que provocó un breve distanciamiento en su relación como se puede ver en "Dejad que Bartlet sea Bartlet". En el comienzo de la segunda temporada Danny recibe una oferta de sus jefes de pasar a la sección de Editoriales del The Washington Post. C.J. esperaba que aceptase, pudiendo así liberarse de los prejuicios que añadía a la relación que él fuera reportero en la Casa Blanca, pero finalmente declinó la oferta. Tiempo después parece que ha sido enviado como corresponsal a algún otro lugar porque no interviene en ningún capítulo de la tercera temporada ni en la primera parte de la cuarta. Su retorno de produce en el capítulo 11 de dicha temporada, titulado "Noche de Paz", dándole una sorpresa a C.J. cuando ésta se está vistiendo de Santa Claus. Sin embargo el dulce momento se amarga cuando Danny le confiesa que tiene pruebas de que los Estados Unidos están detrás de la muerte de Abdul Shareef. Ese había sido el motivo de su ausencia, la cual se prolongará hasta el final de temporada. Se había dedicado a investigar dicha muerte, aunque finalmente Leo McGarry le convenció para que parase al comentarle que suponía una amenaza para la seguridad nacional. En la cuarta temporada a Danny le es concedido el Premio Pulitzer; la reacción de C.J. es que "lo ha ganado desde la cuarta fila [de la Sala de Prensa de la Casa Blanca]" y que, como el Presidente Bartlet, se ha licenciado en la Universidad de Notre Dame. Aparentemente escribió una biografía de la Primera Dama Abigail Bartlet, o al menos eso se desprende de un comentario que le hace el Presidente en la primera temporada. En la séptima temporada se descubre que Danny y C.J. Cregg se han casado y viven con sus hijos en Santa Monica, California.
- Daniel "Danny" Concannon is a fictional White House correspondent for the Washington Post played by Timothy Busfield on the television serial drama The West Wing. Danny first appeared in the third episode of Season 1, "A Proportional Response," where he mentioned that he had been a White House reporter for the past seven years. He is said to have been in step with the Bartlet campaign during the 1998 election. He, like President Bartlet is an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame. In addition to having a long-standing on-again/off-again romance with White House Press Secretary turned Chief of Staff C.J. Cregg, Danny appears to be the correspondent who is the most steadfastly supportive of the Bartlet administration, and he appears to have a good friendship with President Josiah Bartlet, Leo McGarry, Charlie Young and, in particular, Josh Lyman. In the ninth episode, "The Short List," Danny offers Josh advice on determining the motivation behind a congressman's call for investigation of drug use by White House staff, and Josh shows his gratitude by sharing that C.J. loves "goldfish. " Eager for a way to win her heart, Danny presents C.J. with a fish named Gail, only to discover that the goldfish C.J. likes are goldfish crackers. C.J. is still pleased by the gift and the fish is mentioned by name in several episodes across the run of the series. Despite his friendship toward the staff, Danny is the first to break a few of the more controversial stories that arose in the Bartlet White House, and he shows a willingness to criticize the Administration if he feels it is appropriate. In his first appearance, he tells C.J. that he knows that Sam Seaborn has a friend who is a call girl, but he decides to drop the story at C.J. 's urging although he warns her "not everybody is a good guy [like me]" (indeed, a tabloid newspaper publishes the story later that year); C.J. thanks him by letting him be the first to know of a story that breaks while he is there in her office, "for being a good guy. " Near the end of season one, Danny also recovers a memo written for a campaign by Mandy Hampton before she came to work in the White House. The memo listed Mandy's perception of the weaknesses and shortcomings of the Bartlet administration. Even though C.J. asked him not to run with this story either, this time Danny felt it was newsworthy and decided to file it, straining their relationship briefly (as seen in "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet"). Near the beginning of season 2, Danny was offered a job as an editor at The Washington Post. C.J. was hoping that he would take it, believing that they could never have a real relationship while he was a reporter, but Danny turned the job down. Sometime after this he apparently became a foreign correspondent as he was not seen for all of season three and the first part of season four. He made his return in the episode "Holy Night" of the fourth season, surprising C.J. by dressing up as Santa Claus, but things became very serious when Danny confessed to her he had evidence to suggest the U.S. was behind the death of Abdul Shareef. Danny was investigating the story for most of the fourth season, finally getting enough evidence to file by the end of it. He was persuaded to hold off by Leo McGarry, who cited national security concerns. Danny won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism; C.J. mentioned in Season 4 that "he won it from the fourth row [of the Press Briefing Room]". Like President Bartlet, he is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Apparently, he wrote a biography on the First Lady Abbey Bartlet, as in a Season 1 episode the President points out to Danny "You literally wrote the book on my wife. " Danny and C.J. Cregg renew their relationship for good in season seven. They have two dinner dates in "Internal Displacement"; C.J. is too distracted by her job to focus on Danny's courtship of her, but she takes to heart his injunction to make the final months of the Bartlet presidency count. When Leo McGarry dies suddenly on election night, C.J. turns to Danny for comfort. They continue to struggle with the dynamics of their relationship in "Institutional Memory", but C.J. ultimately decides to turn down a position in the Santos administration in order to move to California with Danny, where she will administer a multi-billion-dollar charitable foundation. Three years later, at the dedication of President Bartlet's presidential library, Danny and C.J. are married and live in Santa Monica, California with their child.
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