Holden Green
Breaking News Correspondent at Daily Herald Media Group
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHolden Green is a data journalism master's student at Columbia and a breaking news correspondent with eight years of reporting, multimedia and photojournalism experience, currently bylined 50+ times at the Daily Herald. He combines rapid-response reporting—monitoring scanners and press channels for breaking events—with multimedia storytelling skills developed across newsroom leadership roles, including managing editor and photo editor positions that led website overhauls and award-winning coverage. Holden also contributes to open-source tooling on GitHub, extending tinyobjloader to handle line-paths and improving core parsing logic, an unusual intersection of journalism and hands-on coding for a newsroom practitioner. Comfortable in high-pressure beats and collaborative production environments, he has a track record of building teams, launching campaigns (PrEP4Teens) and equipping newsrooms with the visual resources to deepen audience engagement.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelors Multimedia Journalism, Bachelors Multimedia Journalism at Loyola University ChicagoMaster of Science - MS Data Journalism, Master of Science - MS Data Journalism at Columbia University - Graduate School of JournalismOak Park & River Forest High SchoolUniversity of Missouri
Italian, Swedish, Russian, Hebrew, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
loader10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
3d10
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
opengl-es6
opengl6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tinyobjloader/tinyobjloader
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Tiny but powerful single file wavefront obj loader
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Holden primarily focused on extending the functionality of the tinyobjloader library. Their contributions included adding support for loading line paths, which involved modifying data structures and parsing input files to extract line information. Further commits addressed code quality by removing debugging messages, fixing comments, and refactoring code with the `swap` function. The user's work involved changes to the core loading and parsing logic.
cppwavefronttinyc-plus-pluswavefront-obj
hgreenlab/vkmod
Oct 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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