Hollie McKay

Hollie McKay
Born 5 October 1985
Queensland, Australia
Residence New York City
Occupation Journalist
Organization Fox News

Hollie McKay is an American-Australian journalist for Fox News. She is a national bureau correspondent for the FOXNews.com online news service covering national and international news issues, and reports from Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and Myanmar.

Early life and education

Hollie McKay was born 5 October 1985 in Mackay, Queensland. She attended The McDonald College in Sydney for secondary school.[1]

In 2000, she published a novel entitled Sworn to Secrecy.[2][3]

For university, McKay studied Communications at the University of Technology Sydney before moving to New York City in 2006 to complete her final semester at Pace University.[4][5]

Career

After moving to New York, McKay started interning at Fox News.[5] She began working at Fox after her internship and later moved to Los Angeles.[4] She reported on entertainment news with an online column and a series of television segments.[5] From 2007 to 2013, McKay wrote an entertainment column called "Pop Tarts" for the Fox News website, and appeared on Fox News television broadcasts in a series of segments called "Hollie on Hollywood".

She attracted attention for her reporting on Clint Eastwood,[6] Anthony Bourdain,[7] and the Ferguson unrest of 2014.[8]

Since 2014, McKay has reported as an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the FOXNews.com national bureau. She has reported from the battlefields in Iraq.[9] At the beginning of 2017, Hollie moved from the Los Angeles offices of FOX to the New York office.

References

  1. ↑ "Writer pens own success story". Daily Mercury. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  2. ↑ Arnold, Johh and Hay, John (2001). Bibliography of Australian Literature, Volume 3. University of Queensland Press. p. 376. ISBN 9780702235986.
  3. ↑ ""Hollie's first novel"". Muswellbrook Chronicle. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  4. 1 2 Habib, Rasell (12 July 2011). "Hooray for Holliewood" (PDF). Inner West Courier. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 Domjen, Briana (3 July 2011). "Hollie's big gig in the Big Apple" (PDF). Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  6. ↑ Frulinger, Josh. "Fox News Suddenly Loves Hollywood Elitists After Clint Eastwood Yelled At A Chair". Wonkette. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  7. ↑ Nguyen, Tina. "FEUD: Bourdain Blasts Fox After They Complain About His Cursing, 2013". Mediaite. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  8. ↑ Wilstein, Matt. "CNN Contradicts Fox Sources Claiming Darren Wilson Had Fractured Eye Socket, 21 August 2014". Mediaite. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  9. ↑ Williamson, Jamie. "Just Back from the Battlefield, Hollie McKay Reveals the Evil Among Us" (Podcast). America Out Loud Network. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
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