Bianca Giacobone
Bianca Giacobone is a Brooklyn-based freelance business reporter and fact-checker covering the clean energy transition. Her articles have been featured in Latitude Media, NPR, Business Insider, ReSource, Rolling Stone, Infralogic, and La Cucina Italiana, among others. She regularly works as a fact-checker for Foreign Affairs and the Center for Economic and Policy Research, an economic policy think tank.
Previously, Bianca worked as a transportation reporting fellow for Business Insider, where she wrote about trucks, freight, and strategies to enhance infrastructure resilience. She also served as a financial reporter for ION Group’s Infralogic, covering private financing in infrastructure with a focus on funds and fundraising.
Bianca has also worked as a news assistant for Planet Money, NPR’s business podcast, an assistant producer for Wondery, and as a fact-checker for NewsGuard. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Bristol.
Born and raised in Milan, Italy, Bianca has been living in New York City since 2017.
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