Haley N. Willis

Haley Willis is a video journalist with the New York Times Visual Investigations team, which combines traditional reporting with digital and open source methods to break news and hold the powerful to account.  

She has covered police brutality in Hong Kong and India, humanitarian crises in Syria and Mozambique, and forced labor in China. She co-produced “Day of Rage,” the most complete picture to date of what happened during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and “El Chapo's Son: The Siege of Culiacán,” an episode of the Times documentary series “The Weekly.” 

Her recent work has focused on police killings during traffic stops, civilian casualty assessments from the U.S. air war in the Middle East, Russian atrocities in Ukraine and Israel's use of extremely destructive munitions in Gaza. This and other work has shared in four Pulitzer Prizes, four George Polk Awards, three Overseas Press Club of America Awards, two Society of Publishers in Asia Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, a Peabody Award, and a News Emmy.

Prior to joining The Times in 2019, Willis worked as a researcher with the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law and as a project manager with Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps. She also freelanced for the investigative collective Bellingcat, documenting airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.

Willis earned her joint B.A. in Sociology and Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.