Pamela Williams (born 1954) is an Australian investigative journalist and author.^[1]

Commencing her career at BRW, Williams is best known for her work with The Australian Financial Review, where she worked from 1987 until 2014.^[2] After working in various positions at the newspaper including being the news editor and editor-at-large, Williams left The Australian Financial Review in 2014 to pursue a career in writing novels.^[3]

Williams had previously written two best-selling non-fiction books. In 1997, Williams authored The Victory detailing the Coalition's victory at the 1996 Australian federal election^[4] and in 2013, Williams wrote Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge, which looked at the decline of Australian media company Fairfax^[5] and won the 2013 Walkley Book Award.^[6]

In December 2014, Williams joined The Australian as a senior writer.^[7]

In 2019, Williams wrote an essay for The Monthly, focusing on the 2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills.^[8][9]

During her career, Williams has been awarded six Walkley Awards, including the Gold Walkley in 1998 for her story A Plan To Smash A Union, investigating the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute.^[10]

Williams' other awards include the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, a Melbourne Press Club Quill Award and the University of Technology Sydney George Munster Award.^[11][12][13] Williams rejoined The Australian Financial Review as Writer-at-large in May 2019.^[14]