Dominic Holden

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, until 2014.[4] As of 2015, he was a writer 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]

Dominic Holden in 2014

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
  1. "Former Stranger writer Dominic Holden wins national journalism award". The Stranger. September 14, 2016.
  2. "Dan Savage and Dominic Holden Both Make The Advocate's List of 50 Most Influential LGBTs in Media". Seattle Gay Scene. August 2017.
  3. "50 Most Influential LGBTs in Media". The Advocate. August 16, 2017.
  4. Joel Connelly (September 23, 2014). "Jackson and Holden: Prominent Seattle journalists strike out on their own". Seattle Politics (blog). Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  5. "February, 2015 news archive". Buzzfeed News.
  6. Joel Connelly (June 4, 2013). "'Evergreen:' The story of legalizing pot in Washington". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  7. Jaclyn Peiser (February 12, 2019). "'Not All Fun and Memes': BuzzFeed News Employees Plan to Form a Union". The New York Times.
  8. 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)
  9. Joel Connelly (October 12, 2016). "Forking Seattle: Our city's restaurant history, its personalities, heroes and goats". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.


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