Holly Edgell
Managing Editor, The Midwest NewsroomHolly Edgell is the managing editor of the Midwest Newsroom, a public radio collaboration among NPR member stations in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska.
Holly was previously project manager for Side Effects Public Media at WFYI in Indianapolis and served as
the editor of Sharing America, a four-station collaborative coverage initiative on race, identity and culture. Based at St. Louis Public Radio, she led a team of four reporters in St. Louis, Hartford, Kansas City and Portland, Oregon.
Holly came to public media as a journalist with more than 20 years of experience. In addition to working as a television news producer in several cities, in 2010 she launched 12 St. Louis-area websites for Patch.com, the hyperlocal news initiative introduced by AOL.
Also in St. Louis, she took on a wide range freelance reporting assignments for news organizations such as The National Catholic Reporter and the New York Daily News.
In 2012, she was part of the leadership team that launched WCPO Insider (WCPO.com), the first local television news initiative to introduce an a la carte subscription model for exclusive, in-depth content that audiences could not find elsewhere.
She later served as Director of Digital media for KSHB-TV in Kansas City and WEWS-TV in Cleveland.
In addition to newsroom experience, Holly taught journalism at the University of Missouri and Florida A&M University. She was also a member of the first cohort of Google News Lab trainers. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Society of Professional Journalists. Holly holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in media management from Kent State University. Born in Belize, Holly loves travel, true crime and history podcasts and crossword puzzles.
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