Holly Bailey is a White House correspondent for NEWSWEEK covering the first term of President Barack Obama.
 
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, which won a National Magazine Award.

She also reported on 527 groups, broke news on Tom DeLay's troubles and covered Jack Abramoff and the congressional ethics scandals.

In January 2005, she was named White House correspondent, covering President Bush's second term. She was among the first reporters to travel with Bush to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. She also traveled with Vice President Cheney in 2007 to Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 2008, she covered the Republican presidential race, covering the failed primary bids of Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee and the GOP's ultimate nominee, John McCain.
 
Before joining NEWSWEEK, Bailey was an investigative reporter at the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, where she covered campaign finance and ethics. She previously worked for the Oklahoma Gazette, an alt weekly in Oklahoma City and assisted with CNN's coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. She has also written for Slate, Salon.com, Entertainment Weekly and the Washington City Paper.
 
Bailey attended the University of Oklahoma. She lives in Washington, D.C.