Shelby Holliday can be described as a dynamic journalist and broadcaster. Her experience as a broadcaster is quite extensive and during her career she has earned the label of international journalist. Holliday used to work for popular news channel Channel One, but now works for the highly regarded international newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.
Some of the most exciting events in her career is that she covered the 2008 presidential election and interviewed celebrities like movie star Daniel Radcliffe and artists like Lil Wayne and Pharrell Williams. She won the Telly Award in 2014.
Biography of Shelby Holliday
Shelby Holliday was born to Nancy Holliday and Jeff Holliday on December 11, 1985 in Denver, Colorado. Growing up, she was a huge sports fan, her passion for sports came from her father who was a basketball coach. Shelby grew up loving sports activities like swimming, running, basketball, golf, and soccer. His father is no longer a basketball coach, he now works in finance, even though he has a degree in journalism.
Holliday grew up in her hometown and attended Cherry Creek High School in Colorado. After graduating from high school, she then enrolled at the University of San Diego. Back in college, she was on the women’s basketball team and was also a member of college television, USDtv. Holliday was a member of the USD chapter of Alpha Phi sorority and she was in charge of writing the monthly newsletter for the female fraternity. She graduated from the University of San Diego in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
His career
Holliday is very inspired by her father and it was from him that she inherited her enthusiasm for journalism, and she grew up wanting to become a broadcaster. She started living her passion for journalism in high school by running a live newspaper blog at the time and also wrote in her high school newspaper. Before graduating from college, she worked as an intern at NBC for almost six months. During this time she worked as a journalist and edited/produced video reports.
After graduating from USD, she began working at UWIRE, a wire service powered by student journalists at universities and colleges across the United States. It serves as a central point, connecting all of its 850 members. At UWIRE, Holliday worked as a reporter and producer, covering political and business news. She has also reported and produced news for Fox News and Fox Business Network. In doing so, she covered the 2008 presidential election with Fox News. She stopped working for UWIRE in 2009.
In March 2010, Holliday began working as an anchor and reporter for Channel One News in New York. Channel One was a content provider, which started operating in 1989 but has been closed since May 2018. While at Channel One, she worked as a producer and reporter and also anchored Channel One’s daily news. It was during her time at Channel One that she was tagged as an international journalist. She has reported on several international stories, such as Nelson Mandela’s funeral in South Africa, covered Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines as well as the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay. In June 2014, she stopped working at Channel One.
Shortly after quitting working at Channel One, she started working at Bloomberg Television; an international cable and satellite news television channel, based in the United States and headquartered in New York. At Bloomberg television, she worked as a reporter and also produced the daily news and market segment. She interviewed government officials and business leaders during her time at Bloomberg.
In 2015, she began working for Wall StreetJournal New York City, an international business-based daily newspaper headquartered in New York City. She is currently a senior video reporter for the New York-based International News Agency.
Shelby Holliday married, husband
The broadcaster is married to longtime boyfriend Jonathan Zwart. The couple married on August 29, 2015. Their wedding ceremony was a private ceremony attended by only close family members and a few friends.
His family
Shelby Holliday’s new family includes only herself and her husband as they are still expecting their first child. His other family members include his father, Jeff Holliday and his mother, Nancy Holliday. She has two siblings, a sister and a brother, but their names are not known to us.
His height, his weight
The American journalist and reporter big enough in his own way. She is 5 feet 9 inches tall. His other measurements, including his weight, hip, waist, and chest, are not known at this time.