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]

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]

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  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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