After her internship, Williams began doing her own camera work, and covered the 2008 Summer Olympics in China. This led to her being hired for her first job as a correspondentBob Schieffer, Andrew Schwartz, Center for Strategic and International Studies (August 10, 2016) (Click "DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT" above podcast-then see p.10,paragraph 5) “CBS’s Holly Williams reports from the Danger Zone” and she spent 12 years in China, becoming fluent in Chinese. She worked for BBC News, CNN, and Sky News.
