Holly Bailey was promoted to White House Correspondent in January 2005. She covers the policy and politics of President Bush's second term.

Bailey, who started at Newsweek in January 2003 as an intern in the Washington bureau, was promoted to reporter/researcher in July 2003.  In 2004, she covered the presidential campaigns of Sen. John Kerry and former Rep. Dick Gephardt and was a contributor to the Campaign 2004 Election Project. She also reported on 527 groups and broke news on Tom DeLay's troubles. In 2005, she was among the first reporters to travel with Bush to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and was the only magazine writer to accompany Bush and former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton when they attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II. In addition to the White House beat, she also reported on Jack Abramoff and the congressional ethics scandals.

Before coming to Newsweek, Bailey was an investigative reporter at the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C. from 1999-2002. She was a staff writer for the Oklahoma Gazette in Oklahoma City, OK from 1996-1998. She also assisted with CNN's coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

Bailey has also contributed articles to Slate.com, Salon.com, Entertainment Weekly and the Washington City Paper. In 2002, she won first place in business reporting from the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for an article on a Washington developer for the Washington City Paper.

Bailey attended the University of Oklahoma. She lives in Washington, D.C.