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Dominic Holden
American journalist
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]
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