Francesca Fontana
Francesca Fontana
Francesca Fontana (born October 18, 1994) is an American journalist from Chicago, Illinois. She is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York City.
Early life and education
Fontana was born in 1994 in Chicago, Illinois.[1][2] She is of Mexican-Italian descent.[2]
Her father, Albert Fontana, was incarcerated when she was nine years old.[2] He was an amateur bodybuilder who was recruited by a group of corrupt Chicago Police Department police officers and employees to participate in a fake raid of a drug stash house to steal money and narcotics.[2] Fontana's father was a one-time replacement for another member of the crew who had retired.[2] In 2001, the group, led by former Sgt. Eddie C. Hicks, impersonated Drug Enforcement Administration task force officers and raided a South Side apartment set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to look like a stash house.[3][2]
The sting resulted in the arrests of the men. In 2003, Fontana’s father was sentenced to 44 months in federal prison.[2] Hicks fled on the eve of his trial that year and remained a fugitive until he was arrested in 2017.[4] Hicks was found guilty of multiple charges, including extortion, bribery, and racketeering, in 2019.[5]
After her father was incarcerated in 2003, Fontana and her mother moved from Chicago to Portland, Oregon.[2] Fontana attended Woodrow Wilson High School.[6][7]
Fontana graduated from the University of Oregon’s Robert D. Clark Honors College in 2017 with a degree in Journalism.[8] Fontana paid her own way through university, as she later recounted in a column for The Wall Street Journal.[9] Her undergraduate thesis, “Seeking Truth Through Investigative Memoir,” explored her father’s criminal past.[10]
Career
Fontana began her journalism career as an intern at various newspapers in Oregon, including The Oregonian. She worked as a reporter at The Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon during her time at university.[9][11]
Fontana joined The Wall Street Journal as an intern in 2017.[11] She returned to the newspaper as a reporter in 2018.[12] As of 2021, she reports for Exchange, The Wall Street Journal’s business and finance feature section.[13]
In 2019, Fontana wrote about her father's criminal past and her experience attending the trial of Eddie Hicks for The Wall Street Journal.[2] That year, Fontana announced on Twitter that she was represented by New York literary agency Massie & McQuilkin.[14]
In 2020, Fontana was a recipient of a Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York.[15]
Personal life
Fontana lives in New York City with her husband and two cats.[16][13]
In December 2019, Fontana married visual artist Ryan J. Brady, eloping in Portland, Oregon.[17]
See also
References
- ↑ "Login • Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Fontana, Francesca (2019-11-22). "My Father, His Crime and My Search for the True Story". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ "5 Dec 2001, 171 - Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ Meisner, Jason. "Ex-Chicago cop, a fugitive for almost 15 years, arrested in Detroit". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ "Former CPD Sergeant Eddie Hicks Found Guilty, Spent 14 Years On The Lam". 2019-03-11. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ Dakessian, Drew. "Congrats, Wilson High School Class of 2013". https://joomlakave.com. Retrieved 2021-11-22. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ Press, KATU Staff and Associated (2021-01-27). "Wilson High School in Portland renamed for Black journalist, suffragist Ida B. Wells". KATU. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ "Wall Street Journal internship turns into career for CHC alum Francesca Fontana". Clark Honors College. 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Fontana, Francesca (2021-11-14). "I Graduated From College Free of Student Debt. I'm Not a Model for Anyone". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ "HURF Recipients | Research and Innovation". research.uoregon.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Francesca Fontana to be second Wall Street Journal Pensiero intern". School of Journalism and Communication. 2017-03-02. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ "WSJ hires Fontana as an equities reporter". Talking Biz News. 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Francesca Fontana". WSJ Women In. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ "https://twitter.com/francescamarief/status/1204471800576585733". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-11-22. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ "2020 Front Page Awards". THE NEWSWOMEN'S CLUB OF NEW YORK. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ "francesca fontana". francesca fontana. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ↑ Fontana, Francesca (2020-10-16). "I Married Him for Love—and So He Could Be on My Health Insurance". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
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