Rebecca Williams
Senior Editor, NewsRebecca 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.
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In a press conference Thursday, attorney Ben Crump described Lyoya’s death as “an execution.” -
For years, people in Grand Rapids have warned that the tactics of the city's police department would lead to death. Last week, Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, was shot. -
As of Monday, 4,580 adults are hospitalized with COVID in Michigan. -
The 15-year-old suspect, a sophomore, has been charged with murder, terrorism, and other charges. Four students have died, and seven others were injured in the shooting. -
AAPS Superintendent Jeanice Swift wrote in a letter to students, parents and staff that COVID cases have grown steadily over the past three weeks. -
State officials say they've detected the first known case of a new coronavirus variant in Michigan.The variant is called B.1.351 and it was first… -
Michigan State University has issued what it calls an "enhanced physical distance directive" for students, effective Saturday, January 30 at midnight and… -
Two more people in Michigan are confirmed to be infected with a more contagious variant of COVID-19.The state health department says the two women who…
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The leaders of the Michigan Republican Party and the Republican National Committee are asking the state Board of Canvassers to delay the certification of… -
About 800 people trudged across a muddy field to get to the airport in Waterford Township where Vice President Mike Pence was to speak. Speakers blared…