Anthony De Leon is a 2023-24 reporting fellow at the Los Angeles Times. Born and raised in Fresno to a Chicano family, he pursued his higher education in his hometown, earning an associate‘s degree in journalism from Fresno City College and then completing a bachelor’s in media, communications and journalism at Fresno State. He went on to complete his master’s in media innovation at the University of Nevada, Reno, writing a thesis on sports reporting titled “What’s The Question: Overview of Interviewing, Questioning, and New Conference Coverage in Professional Sports Journalism.” Since starting in journalism in 2017, De Leon has worked in Los Angeles and New York. He interned as a business reporter at the Los Angeles Times in 2022 and, most recently, as a personal finance intern at the Wall Street Journal. His passion for storytelling and reporting has led him back to L.A. as part of the fellowship class.
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