Frances Wang

After more than a decade anchoring and reporting in major markets across the country, Frances Wang happily took her first day at FOX 5 coinciding with the New York Knicks championship parade as a sign that she has found a place to call home.

Her work has earned industry recognition and Emmy nominations for coverage ranging from breaking news to feature reporting. On the West Coast, Frances covered historic wildfires in Washington and California and the closely watched federal courtroom battle involving Elon Musk and OpenAI. In South Florida, Frances was the first local television anchor on air following the 2021 Surfside condominium collapse. Her social media profiles of the victims reached millions and were displayed at the site's memorial wall. In Philadelphia, she covered the attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, the arson attack at the Pennsylvania governor's residence, and the I-95 and Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses. Frances has also covered several Super Bowls, multiple NBA Finals and a World Series.

For Frances, the most fulfilling part of the job is the people she meets and the relationships that grow from the stories she tells. One of the hardest but most meaningful moments of her career was delivering the eulogy for Sammie Dacong, a young Make-A-Wish recipient Frances first met through a story. That will always mean more to her than any title or award.

Frances' love for journalism started early. Her mother owned a small kiosk at a mall, where Frances often went to work with her as a child. When a local television studio opened inside the mall, an anchor interviewed Frances, then a middle school student, giving her an early introduction to the career she would eventually pursue.

A proud Chinese American and the first in her family born in the United States, Frances was also the first to attend college here, earning an academic scholarship to the University of Southern California. She graduated magna cum laude and, while she's a proud alum of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, she also loves telling people she earned a second degree in Business Administration.

Frances is fluent in Mandarin, an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association and a proud Trojan who hopes to connect with fellow USC alumni across the tri-state area.