Based on his December 2022 essay entitled Journalism is a public good. Let the public make it in the Columbia Journalism Review, Darryl Holliday will moderate this panel on the (re)emerging civic med...
Darryl Holliday
Darryl Holliday is co-founder and partner of Commoner Company. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
In 2019, Darryl orchestrated the development of the award-winning documenters.org platform and strategic expansion of the Documenters Network to its first 11 cities—training thousands of people to engage their local government, and paying out more than $1 million directly to local residents in the process. Together with his team he helped re-invigorate the participatory media landscape and train thousands of people to engage their local government. The culmination of these endeavors was celebrated with the $10 million Stronger Democracy Award.
In 2015 Darryl co-founded City Bureau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning civic media lab based on Chicago's South Side where, as Co-Executive Director of National Impact, he helped build the organization from volunteer passion project to an institution with a $4 million annual budget and more than two dozen employees.
News jobs in the US dropped by 25% in the decade between 2008 and 2018, hitting local newsrooms the hardest. At the same time, local news remains the most trusted by audiences, and a critical front li...
