Holly Edgell
Managing Editor, Midwest NewsroomContact: hollyedgell@kcur.org
Holly 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 the editor of 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 St. Louis Public Radio 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.
She has lived and worked around the Midwest for most of my adult life, and have lived in St. Louis in 2017. Before joining the Midwest Newsroom, I worked as the lead editor for Sharing America, a collaboration of journalists from four states who focused on coverage at the intersection of race, identity and culture.
Job Title: Managing Editor
Topic Expertise: Investigative, climate, housing, diversity, inclusion
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Education: Kent State University (1995) MA in journalism; Michigan State University (1990) BA in journalism
Honors & Awards: Emmy Award for Best TV Newscast (KOMU/2003); IRE Award for Best Podcast (2022 Midwest Newsroom/KCUR Studios); RTDNA Regional Murrow Award for Investigative News (2022 Midwest Newsroom/STLPR)
Memberships: Society of Professional Journalists; National Association of Black Journalism; Journalism and Women Symposium
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