Scott Fontaine
Scott Fontaine is an American journalist. He has reported from Iraq,[1] Kuwait, Tanzania, Rwanda and across the United States. He has appeared on Fox News, PBS and various local television and radio stations.
Fontaine worked as a reporter for Gannett newspapers, as a sports writer and news reporter at The News Tribune, the Albuquerque Journal, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Columbia Missourian. His freelance work has appeared in newspapers and magazines in the United States, the United Kingdom and South Africa.
He was born and raised in a suburb of New Orleans and attended the University of Missouri. He lived in Cape Town for six months after college and traveled across sub-Saharan Africa for another six months.
Fontaine returned to the United States in 2005 and worked as a copy editor and sports writer at the Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico’s largest newspaper. He left the following year to work as a sports writer at The News Tribune[2] of Tacoma, Wash. He later worked at the paper as a general-assignment news reporter and a military affairs reporter. He traveled to the Middle East twice to embed with local Army[3] and Air Force units.
He married his wife, Liz, in 2008. They live in Alexandria, Va.