Dana Williams is a reporter for NBC San Diego (KNSD). San Diego is Dana’s first market and she loves being able to share the stories that impact the community that she feels at home in.
Dana has on-camera storytelling experience for both traditional broadcast platforms and for emerging social/streaming platforms. She has had the opportunity to appear in coverage on other NBCUniversal platforms such as MSNBC, NBC New York, Weekend Today, NBC Los Angeles, NBC LocalX and more.
She has been working on the station’s news team for nearly five years in multiple roles, including as a digital multimedia journalist, assignment editor and story producer.
During her time at NBC 7, Dana has won an Emmy Award for her contribution to coverage in 2020 on protests that became riots in the City of La Mesa. She was also nominated for a second Emmy for a piece she wrote, shot and edited about therapy dogs at the San Diego International Airport. In addition, Dana has won multiple awards through the Society of Professional Journalists including for Social Media Personality and Social Media Storytelling.
She is always looking for new ways to engage and inform news consumers in non-traditional ways. She is passionate about the future of the media industry, and she is able to combine this with her experience as a journalist by mentoring student journalists as an adjunct professor at Point Loma Nazarene University. Dana is teaching an upper-division course at PLNU that focuses on social media and journalism. Along these same lines, she has a love for students and sharing what being a journalist entails which is why she ran the internship program at NBC 7 and Telemundo 20 for four years.
In 2019, Dana graduated Magna Cum Laude (high honors) from Point Loma Nazarene University (yes, she’s back teaching at her alma mater!) with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. While she was in school, she was the editor-in-chief of her school newspaper for two years. She was also a news intern on the assignment desk at ABC 7 News Bay Area (KGO).
Dana was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area then came to San Diego for college, but fell in love with the people, beaches and, of course, the food. She is excited to be in America’s Finest City and to have the honor of sharing your stories.
If you want to connect with Dana, send her a note on Instagram, Facebook or via email!
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