Lisa Fernandez
Lisa Fernandez is an old-fashioned newspaper reporter who works online in a TV station.
Lisa came to KTVU in 2017 and has worked in the Bay Area as a journalist for more than 30 years.
At KTVU, Lisa covers the sexual abuse scandal at the all-women's FCI Dublin prison, the in-custody deaths at Santa Rita Jail, and the federal oversight over the Oakland Police Department. She also covers breaking news, civil rights cases, immigration and education issues and actually loves doing a light feature.
Lisa truly believes that journalism can effect change, by letting the public know more about the world that they live in.
Lisa spent most of her career as a print reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, covering cops, city hall and religion. She's also worked at the LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, NBC Bay Area, and the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, New York, where she is from.
She met her husband in 1995 when they were both young reporters at her first real journalism job: Bay City News in San Francisco.
Lisa loves to teach journalism and she has been an adjunct professor at San Jose State University. She has her master's degree in journalism from Medill at Northwestern University.
In her free time, Lisa volunteers with the Society of Professional Journalists at San Quentin Prison helping incarcerated men hone their writing and reporting skills, and she coaches high school seniors write their college essays.
She is also an exercise instructor, teaching spin, yoga, aqua and body sculpting classes.
Lisa lives in Oakland, Calif., with her husband. She has two adult children.
Have a story tip or idea for Lisa? Contact Lisa at lisa.fernandez@fox.com or (510) 874-0139.
The latest from Lisa Fernandez
Richmond OKs turning Point Molate into 80-acre park
The Richmond City Council on Friday voted to create an 80-acre regional park at Point Molate, an old Navy fuel storage facility located on the San Pablo Peninsula about a mile north of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.
Oakland crews pave potholes on Skyline Boulevard
Oakland crews began paving over potholes on Skyline Boulevard – a popular and steep route for bicyclists – after KTVU revealed the city has paid out the most of any Bay Area city to people who have suffered serious injuries on this stretch of rough road.
Prison oversight bill inspired by FCI Dublin sexual abuse, corruption heads to Biden
The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons where reporting from The Associated Press exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and reporting from KTVU highlighted the intense sexual abuses at the all-women's prison in Dublin, Calif.
Yosemite begs visitors not to bury toilet paper on park trails
Yosemite National Park rangers are begging visitors to stop burying toilet paper – and leaving full rolls – on their majestic trails.
Subpoena sheds light on FBI investigation of Oakland mayor, Duongs
Oakland's city attorney faces a Thursday deadline to hand over documents to the FBI after the U.S. Attorney in Northern California issued criminal grand jury subpoenas to city officials in the widening probe of the city's politically connected recycling company owners and Mayor Sheng Thao.
Patelco credit union $500-limit after cyberattack frustrating customers
Patelco credit union, which experienced a cyberattack last month, is limiting its customers to withdrawing $500 at a time, frustrating many who need to make payments that are much more than that.
13 Tahoe National Park hikers reunite with parents after camping in Royal Fire zone
Thirteen young people who were hiking in the Tahoe National Forest as a wildfire raged nearby were reunited on Monday with their parents.
Royal Fire: Sheriff spots 13 missing hikers in Tahoe National Forest
The Placer County Sheriff's Office said investigators spotted 13 young hikers Monday morning in the Tahoe National Forest who were camping about two miles from the Royal Fire.
FCI Dublin still has constitutional violations even though it's closed: judge
The Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin still must address constitutional violations even though the all-women's prison shut down nearly two months ago, a judge has ruled.
Some 1,000 fish killed by heat wave in Fremont's Lake Elizabeth
Extreme heat and low oxygen levels have killed up to 1,000 fish in Fremont's Lake Elizabeth this week, city officials said.