Haley N. Willis

Haley Willis is an investigative journalist combining traditional reporting with digital and open source methods to cover the human cost of conflict, political unrest, and state violence. Her work at Columbia Journalism School’s Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism focuses on developing open source reporting curricula and programming and providing mentorship to students pursuing work in the field of open source investigations.

Haley most recently worked as a video journalist with the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times. While there, she covered 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, Haley worked as a researcher and lab coordinator with the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law and as a project manager with Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps.

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