Holly Williams (Australian journalist)


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

Education

Williams grew up in Tasmania and Victoria states in Australia and attended Hamilton College, a secondary school in Hamilton, Victoria. 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.

Career

Williams was hired by CBS in October 2012. 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 she 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.
On 21 August 2015, the New York Times included Williams in an article about leading female war correspondents. Elle magazine profiled Williams and several other women in a March 2016 article on female correspondents at CBS.
On 12 March 2017, 60 Minutes broadcast two segments Williams produced centered around a series of interviews she conducted with Mohamedou Slahi. 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.