Francesca Marchese
(She/Her)
As seen in:
Bottom Line,
MSN UK,
UOL,
BBC,
BBC Mundo,
BBC News,
Daily Mail,
Terra,
The Guardian,
The Telegraph
and
Covers:
Sicily, Italy, Current affairs, Arts & culture, Lifestyle, Food
📲marchesefrancesca(at)gmail(.)com 🗞✍️ 🎙 Independent #journalist. RT ≠ endrsmt. ✨ London based 🇮🇹Sicily Expert
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Francesca Marchese’s Biography
Read Full Bio →I am a freelance London based Italian reporter, NCTJ trained.
I help international media covering stories about Italy and my native Sicily.
I work on current affairs, breaking news, features, food and lifestyle.
You can find my work on the BBC (online, video, radio, podcast), the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday, the Telegraph, CTVC and on many more National UK outlets
For more than a decade I worked as a journalist in Catania, Sicily, for newspapers, TV and radio news channels, magazines and ne…
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Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
I worked for 4 years in the major regional TV news channel in Sicily
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
At 17, my first article was about FGM. I also wrote a travel piece from Melbourne, and I won my 1st mobile phone in a student journalism award
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Be curious and always double check your news