American journalist
Dominic Holden in 2014
Dominic Holden is an American journalist. He was National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association ' s 2016 Journalist of the Year Award awardee,[ 1] and one of The Advocate ' s 50 most influential LGBTs in America in 2017.[ 2] [ 3] He was director of Seattle Hempfest and an editor at Seattle's The Stranger alternative newspaper for six years.[ 4] From 2015 until June 2020 he wrote for Buzzfeed News .[ 5] Holden appeared in the 2013 documentary Evergreen: The Road to Legalization .[ 6] In 2019, The New York Times reported that he was one of the leaders of an effort to unionize employees at Buzzfeed.[ 7]
His father, Ronald Holden, is a Seattle food writer, who worked at KING-TV and was executive editor at the other Seattle alt-weekly, Seattle Weekly .[ 8] [ 9]
References
^ "Former Stranger writer Dominic Holden wins national journalism award" . The Stranger . September 14, 2016.
^ "Dan Savage and Dominic Holden Both Make The Advocate's List of 50 Most Influential LGBTs in Media" . Seattle Gay Scene. August 2017.
^ "50 Most Influential LGBTs in Media" . The Advocate . August 16, 2017.
^ Joel Connelly (September 23, 2014). "Jackson and Holden: Prominent Seattle journalists strike out on their own" . Seattle Politics (blog). Seattle Post-Intelligencer .
^ "February, 2015 news archive" . Buzzfeed News .
^ Joel Connelly (June 4, 2013). " 'Evergreen:' The story of legalizing pot in Washington" . Seattle Post-Intelligencer .
^ Jaclyn Peiser (February 12, 2019). " 'Not All Fun and Memes': BuzzFeed News Employees Plan to Form a Union" . The New York Times .
^ Dominic Holden (2014). Foreword. Home Grown Seattle: 101 True Tales of Local Food & Drink . By Holden, Ronald (Kindle ed.). ASIN B00NJ0Q0N4. (2014 print ed. ISBN 9780692264362 )
^ Joel Connelly (October 12, 2016). "Forking Seattle: Our city's restaurant history, its personalities, heroes and goats" . Seattle Post-Intelligencer .
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