Wendy Fry Email & Phone Number

I’m an Emmy-winning multimedia investigative journalist reporting on poverty and inequality for the California Divide team at CalMatters. Based in San Diego and Mexico, I’ve been covering the border region for more than 15 years, including immigration, economy and U.S.-Mexico foreign relations. I’m the vice-president of the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and reported for the Watchdog team at the San Diego Union-Tribune from 2009 to 2012. For television, I worked as an on-air reporter, investigative reporter and producer and assignment editor at NBC San Diego from 2013 to 2018 — where I helped launch an investigative team and Telemundo20, the Spanish language news station. Then I returned to print journalism, covering Mexico and Baja California for the Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2022.I won SPJ’s Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism in 2012 for uncovering corruption among construction contractors and elected officials at the Sweetwater Union High School District, resulting in indictments of about a dozen public officials. I also won the Grand Golden Watchdog Award from the San Diego County Taxpayers Association in 2017, for coverage of dangerous levels of lead in water in the San Diego Unified and San Ysidro school districts. I’ve produced two short documentaries “Missing in Mexico,” about family members searching for the remains of missing loved ones in Baja California, and “Journalism at Risk” about the murders of my colleagues in Tijuana in 2022. I speak English and Spanish.

Listed skills include Journalism, News Writing, Storytelling, Editing, and 23 others.

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  San Diego State University

  Journalism