Holly Williams (Australian journalist)

Holly Williams
Born 1978 (age 39–40)
Australia
Nationality Australia
Occupation journalist

Holly Williams is an Australian journalist.[1] Williams work as a journalist has won her sufficient respect from her colleagues that she herself has been the subject of other journalists' work.[2][3][4]

Education

Williams grew up in Tasmania and Victoria states in Australia and attended Hamilton College, a secondary school in Hamilton, Victoria.[1][5] She has a bachelor's degree in Asian studies from the Australian National University and master's degree in international relations from Deakin University. From 2007 to 2008, Williams was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.[6]

Career

Williams was hired by CBS in October 2012.[4] She had previously worked for BBC News, CNN, and Sky News. She spent 12 years as a correspondent in China, and learned the Chinese language. She also studied the Turkish language, when was a correspondent in Turkey.

Williams and colleague Andrew Portch received a 2012 Polk Award for coverage of Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human rights activist.[7]

On 21 August 2015, the New York Times included Williams in an article about leading female war correspondents.[8] Elle magazine profiled Williams and several other women in a March 2016 article on female correspondents at CBS.[9]

On 19 October 2016, video of Williams taking cover, when she heard an explosion, when covering hostilities in Iraq, went viral.[10][11] Two days later Charlie Rose broadcast a ten-minute conversation he conducted with Williams, in Iraq, by video.[12]

On 12 March 2017, 60 Minutes broadcast two segments Williams produced centered around a series of interviews she conducted with Mohamedou Slahi.[13][14] Slahi was one of the few individuals held in Guantanamo that American officials explicitly acknowledge torturing. CBS News described the interviews as Slahi's first television interviews since his repatriation. Williams traveled to Mauritania for those interviews.

References

  1. 1 2 Cydney Adams (2016-03-16). "Getting to know CBS News' Holly Williams". CBS News. Retrieved 2017-03-11. I grew up in Australia. When I was little I lived in Tasmania, and then I went to high school in Victoria on the Australian mainland.
  2. ↑ Abigail Pesta (2012-10-08). "A Foot in Two Worlds: Holly Williams on Reporting—and Parenting—in War Zones". Daily Beast. Retrieved 2017-03-11. Williams has spent her career in TV news, working as a producer and reporter for outlets including CNN and the BBC, mostly while based in China.
  3. ↑ Kellie Freeze (2016-11-16). "CBS News Foreign Correspondent Holly Williams Reveals Her Dream Interview Subject". Channel Guide magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-11. Holly Williams travels throughout the Middle East covering the region for CBS News. And after she recently reported — between volleys of gunfire — on the Mosul offensive while embedded with Kurdish forces, we knew we needed to learn more about this stoic journalist.
  4. 1 2 Alex Weprin (2012-10-08). "CBS News Adds Holly Williams To Correspondent Ranks". Ad Week. Retrieved 2017-03-11. CBS News has brought on Holly Williams as a correspondent. Williams, who had been based in China and now lives in Turkey, is a veteran foreign correspondent, most recently for SKY News. She has been reporting freelance for CBS for a few months now.
  5. ↑ "Holly Williams". LinkedIn. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Holly Williams". CBS News. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  7. ↑ Marc Santora (2013-02-18). "2 Reports on Chinese Rulers' Wealth Are Among 2012 Polk Award Winners". New York Times. p. A13. Retrieved 2017-03-13. The correspondent Holly Williams and the cameraman Andrew Portch were recognized for their coverage of the human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled China after years of being under house arrest for his work exposing how some Chinese women were forced to have abortions in order to comply with the country’s one-child policy.
  8. ↑ Luisita Lopez Torregrosa (2015-08-21). "The rise of the female TV war correspondent as global celebrity". New York Times. Retrieved 2017-03-11. Williams, a 38-year-old Australian correspondent who has covered China and East Asia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Gaza, Syria and Libya, says she has not noticed any sexism in the workplace but has been sexually harassed in the field. “There are parts of the world — I don’t want to name them– where you’re more likely to be sexually harassed and that’s true whether you’re a tourist or a local or a journalist.”
  9. ↑ Mattie Khan (2016-03-16). "For the women war correspondents at CBS News, the office is a battlefield: There are no glass ceilings in a bunker". Elle magazine. Retrieved 2017-03-13. Returning to the field just weeks after giving birth in 2012, Williams ventured deep into the jungles of Burma to do a story on tribal soldiers. She pumped every few hours to make sure that she'd still be able to breastfeed when she returned home.
  10. ↑ Gareth Malone (2016-10-19). "Take cover! News reporter throws herself on the floor after hearing an explosion near Mosul - to the amusement of laughing Iraqi soldiers who tell her to get up". Daily Mail (UK). Retrieved 2017-03-11. Australian Holly Williams was recording a piece on Mosul when she heard the distant blast and took cover. In the video, battle-hardened soldiers take no notice of the explosion as they continue to go about their business.
  11. ↑ Jonah Bennett (2016-10-19). "Iraqi Soldiers Laughing And Taking Pictures Of Reporter Terrified In 'Combat'". Daily Caller. Retrieved 2017-03-11. Veteran foreign CBS News correspondent Holly Williams dove dramatically to the ground after hearing an explosion near Mosul, while Iraqi soldiers, completely unfazed, had a good laugh and took photos of her.
  12. ↑ Charlie Rose (2016-10-21). "Holly Williams". Charlie Rose (TV series). Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  13. ↑ "Ex-Gitmo detainee on torture: "They broke me"". 60 Minutes. 2017-03-09. Retrieved 2017-03-08. Now, in his first television interview since being released last October, he tells his remarkable story on 60 Minutes.
  14. ↑ Olivia Beavers (2017-03-12). "Former Gitmo prisoner details U.S. interrogation tactics to '60 Minutes'". The Hill. Retrieved 2017-03-11. 'That shows the greatness of American people. Not- - my greatness because American people believe in justice. And they decided to give me a forum, to give me a voice,' Slahi told Holly Williams.
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