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]
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]