Dana Williams Biography
Dana Williams is an Emmy award winning journalist currently working as a reporter for NBC San Diego (KNSD). She feels at home and loves being able to share stories that impact her first market the San Diego community.
Dana Williams Career
Williams has on camera storytelling experience for both traditional broadcast platforms and emerging social/streaming platforms. In addition, she has had the opportunity to appear in coverage on other NBCUniversal platforms. Such as MSNBC, NBC New York, Weekend Today, NBC Los Angeles, NBC LocalX and more.
Williams has been working on the station’s news team for almost five years in several roles. Such as digital multimedia journalist, assignment editor and story producer.
She is a recipient of an Emmy Award for her contribution in covering the 2020 protests that became riots in the City of La Mesa during her time at NBC 7. Furthermore, Williams was also a nominee for a second Emmy for a piece she wrote, shot and edited about therapy dogs at the San Diego International Airport. In addition, she has received countless awards through the Society of Professional Journalists. Such as Social Media Personality and Social Media Storytelling.
Williams is always looking for new ways to engage and inform news consumers in non-traditional ways. She combines her experience as a journalist and passion about the future of the media industry by mentoring student journalists. Williams is an adjunct professor at Point Loma Nazarene University teaching an upper division course at the university that focuses on social media and journalism. She ran the internship program at NBC 7 and Telemundo 20 for four years. Because of her love for students and sharing what being a journalist entails.
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She is always looking for new ways to engage and inform news consumers in non-traditional ways. She is passionate about the future of the media industry, and she is able to combine this with her experience as a journalist by mentoring student journalists as an adjunct professor at Point Loma Nazarene University. Dana is teaching an upper-division course at PLNU that focuses on social media and journalism. Along these same lines, she has a love for students and sharing what being a journalist entails which is why she ran the internship program at NBC 7 and Telemundo 20 for four years.
Williams graduated Magna Cum Laude (high honors) with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2019. And yes she’s back teaching her alma mater. Williams was the editor in chief of her school newspaper for two years while she was in school. In addition, she was also a news intern on the assignment desk at KGO,ABC 7 News Bay Area.
Williams was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area then came to San Diego for college. She fell in love with the people, beaches and definitely the food. Williams is excited to be in America’s Finest City and to have the honor of sharing our stories.
Dana Williams Age
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Dana Williams Height
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Dana Williams Education
Williams graduated Magna Cum Laude (high honors) with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2019. And yes she’s back teaching her alma mater.
Dana Williams Family
Williams was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area then came to San Diego for college. She fell in love with the people, beaches and definitely the food. Her father was an FBI agent and her mother is an executive at a company in Silicon Valley. Her mother one of her role models.
Dana Williams Husband
There is no information about Williams being married though she is in a engaged to her fiancé. However, will update as soon as the information is available.
Dana Williams Children
There is no information about Williams having children.
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