#NBC METEOROLOGIST ALICIA SERIES#

Her 90-minute PBS special on alcoholism and addiction, Within Reach, along with her continuing work as a PBS contributing correspondent and anchor on Religion & Ethics Newsweekly have established Williams as a significant reporter on broad issues of ethics. As host of Hallmark’s weekly True North program on personal ethics, Williams earned the 2001 Gracie Allen Award and the 2001 Donald McGannon Ethics in Media Award. She also hosted a companion program to Bill Moyers' On Our Own Terms, about death and dying, which aired in Fall 2000 on PBS. Ethics reporting įor WNET, In the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks, she wrote and hosted a 3-hour PBS special Reaching Out to Heal. and was previously an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University. She is also an associate professor of Journalism at SUNY Purchase. She most recently served as the anchor of NJTV News on New Jersey's public television network, NJTV, from July 2014 to March 2020 (with her announcement of stepping down as anchor the following month in April 2020). Williams has been the host of The Discovery Channel's 'Daily Rounds' show and anchored two unprecedented 10-hour live television specials on childbirth for the Discovery Health Channel.

#NBC METEOROLOGIST ALICIA SERIES#

In the 1990s, she represented the telecommunications company NYNEX in a series of commercials. Williams was a frequent anchor and correspondent for NBC Nightly News, NBC News at Sunrise and Today. During her tenure with NBC from 1989–1993, she also anchored Sunday Today, NBC News Special Reports, and NBC’s extended coverage of Desert Storm: War in the Gulf. She shared this award with fellow anchors Tom Brokaw, Garrick Utley, John Cochran, Deborah Norville, and Katie Couric, and correspondents Dennis Murphy, George Lewis, Arthur Kent, and Tom Aspell. In 1990, Williams was one of a group of NBC News personnel who won a News and Documentary Emmy award in the category of Outstanding General Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story (Segments) for ' Romanian Revolution Coverage' on NBC Nightly News and Weekend Nightly News. In 1989, Williams moved to NBC News where she co-hosted Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, a series of news magazine specials which were controversial, since they included dramatic reenactments similar to the television show, Unsolved Mysteries substitute anchored NBC Nightly News and co-hosted Sunday Today. She was a vital member of CNN’s political anchor team, co-hosting Inside Politics with Bernard Shaw. In 1982, Williams was appointed Vice president, becoming one of the highest ranking female executives in American television. She was also one of the channel’s principal anchors. She served as New York Bureau Chief, overseeing the planning and operation of the network’s second largest bureau with responsibility for seven hours of original programming per day. A year later, she held the same role (at WPIX-TV) in New York and then became reporter/ anchor at WNBC-TV.Īs one of the primary architects behind the design of the first worldwide television network, Williams oversaw the construction of CNN’s New York Bureau at the World Trade Center prior to the launch of Cable News Network CNN in 1980. The day after graduating college, Williams was named executive producer of news for KSTP. Julian Decter, a hematologic oncologist at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. She is the mother of three daughters: Alice Ann, born 1990 and twins Sara Mary and Laura Abigail, born 1992. in English and Mass Communications from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Williams was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While in College at Creighton University, she filed reports for KSTP and the Chicago Bureau of NBC News on the political assassinations and pro-women and anti-war movements that rocked the nation and framed her generation. Williams was educated at the Convent of the Visitation and while still in High School began working as a reporter for KSTP-TV. Williams, a psychiatrist and a dean at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Williams was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the second of five children born to Alice Mary (nee Griebel) and Dr. In addition to CNN, she has also served as anchor at many prominent networks, including PBS, Discovery, and NBC. Her work and visibility put her in the vanguard, whether at the birth of CNN or later at the dawn of the revolution in information technology. Mary Alice Williams (born March 12, 1949) is a pioneering journalist and broadcast executive who broke gender barriers by becoming the first female Prime Time anchor of a network news division and first woman to hold the rank of Vice President of a news division. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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