Darryl Holliday

Co-founder & News Lab Director - City Bureau

Darryl Holliday is co-founder of and News Lab director at City Bureau, a civic newsroom based on Chicago's South Side.

City Bureau brings journalists and communities together to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public and employs a shared leadership model among its four co-founders. Darryl’s leadership style and the model of City Bureau bring new energy into the idea of what leadership and journalism mean.

Darryl and City Bureau employ an alternative journalism platform to train and promote African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American (ALAANA) journalists, media and storytellers. He is co-leading the charge to build civic engagement of media and storytelling within the community and to challenge the idea of what media entities should be. From his work as an investigative journalist to his vision in re-imagining the very roles of community and journalists with the groundbreaking organization, City Bureau, Darryl is pioneering ways to both improve and let the public shape the Chicago information landscape.

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