1. Hollie McKay is an Australian born journalist who formerly worked for Fox News.
20 Facts About Hollie McKay
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Hollie McKay was born 5 October 1985 in Mackay, Queensland.
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Hollie McKay attended The McDonald College in Sydney for secondary school.
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Hollie McKay reported on entertainment news with an online column and a series of television segments.
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From 2007 to 2013, McKay wrote an entertainment column called "Pop Tarts" for the Fox News website, and appeared on Fox News television broadcasts in a series of segments called "Hollie on Hollywood".
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Hollie McKay has reported on Clint Eastwood, Anthony Bourdain, and the Ferguson unrest of 2014.
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Since 2014, Hollie McKay has served as an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the Fox national bureau.
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Hollie McKay has reported extensively from the battlefields in Iraq, including embedded service with US and Australian forces.
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Hollie McKay documented dozens of witness and first hand survivor accounts to be used in later tribunals and court cases in Iraq.
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In 2017, Hollie McKay returned to New York City, where she became a member of Fox Digital Studio's "original news" staff.
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Also in 2017, Hollie McKay reported extensively from Kabul, Afghanistan, the Panjshir Valley, and other areas of the country.
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Hollie McKay maintains a permanent press pass to the United Nations.
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Hollie McKay met with Pakistani Ambassador Khalid Mahmood on March 19,2018 discussion counter-terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Hollie McKay has reported on issues related to the Kashmir conflict.
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Hollie McKay was a human rights and cultural consultant advisor to Infinity Ward for the creation of the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
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In that role, Hollie McKay crafted story ideas and features for their behind-the-scenes global promotional materials.
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Hollie McKay was featured in the 2019 documentary about the game's authentic recreation of actual battle conditions.
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Hollie McKay serves on the Honorary and Advisory Board of the humanitarian NGO Emergency USA which supports healthcare to victims of war, poverty and landmines in Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Italy, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda.
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In 2021, Hollie McKay published Only Cry for the Living, a historical work that chronicles the human stories she encountered in while covering the war with ISIS between 2014 and 2019.
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In 2023, Hollie McKay released Afghanistan: The End of the US Footprint and the Rise of the Taliban Rule.