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Rebecca Williams

Senior Editor, News

Rebecca Williams is senior editor in the newsroom, where she edits stories and helps guide news coverage.

She's been with Michigan Public for more than 20 years. She's been an editor, reporter and producer, host of the Environment Report, and an on-air host.

Rebecca has a degree in resource ecology and management from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources & Environment, where she had close encounters with escaped boars and poison sumac.

She’s won several national awards for her work, including a national Edward R. Murrow award for a documentary, Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future that she reported with Mark Brush and Lester Graham, and she shared in the prestigious duPont-Columbia and Scripps Howard awards for team coverage of the Flint water crisis.