Email: Jessica.Davis (at) patch.com
Phone: (310) 321-8309
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Hometown: Anaheim Hills, Calif.
Bio: Jessica E. Davis is a news reporter and multimedia journalist who has lived in Southern California nearly all her life. She is the type of reporter who likes to go beyond the surface level.
Before coming to Los Angeles County, Jessica launched Palm Desert Patch in the Coachella Valley in 2010, where she reported on environmental issues, crime, entertainment and the impact of the elimination of redevelopment on the city. She also covered the local extension of the Occupy Wall Street movement, camping out with the protesters for several days. She was the only journalist to witness the beginning of a police raid on the encampment, and provided up-to-the minute live coverage. In Malibu, she covered the Malibu Lagoon Restoration Project from start to finish, providing regular updates and behind-the-scenes features. She also covered the Santa Monica shootings, beating traditional media by 15 minutes with the early reports.
Before joining Patch, Jessica worked as a wire service reporter in Southern California, where she wrote about everything from celebrities to crime, especially celebrities committing crimes. She also started up a blog while living in Asia and freelanced photographs of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, which were published in The Christian Science Monitor and CBS.com.
Jessica graduated from Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. with a B.A. in Journalism and History. While at school, she served as news and online editor of The Whitworthian. She also hosted a news radio show.
When she's not working on a story or editing video, Jessica can be found hiking, volunteering, reading a good book or hanging out with her husband.
For the next three months, the Santa Monica Police Department's Traffic Enforcement Section will enforce a California law on hand-held cell phones.
The 16-year-old Westlake Village resident suffered possible back injuries.
The 16-year-old Westlake Village resident suffered possible back injuries.
The city of Santa Monica alerts residents, commuters to lane closures and delays for the week of April 8-12.
Here are the top stories from Malibu Patch from March 31-April 6.
Janice Slossy reflects back on what it was like to grow up in Santa Monica before the Third Street Promenade was closed to traffic.
Santa Monica resident Louise Steiner shares her woes of getting around town on foot and by bus.
One of the six sisters in the singing group Cimorelli witnessed a hit-and-run crash that killed a tow truck driver on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu in February. The concerts, in Malibu and Newbury Park, will raise money for the man's family.
The suspect is described as an African-American man in his early 20s with a thin build.
Honest, civil discourse can cause positive change in a community. It is my hope that Santa Monica Patch serves that purpose.
The lane was blocked near Geoffrey's in Malibu for about an hour.
The one-on-one training process is repeated several times to ensure that the dog understands the sight, smell and sound of a rattlesnake.
Conflicting policies in Malibu's Local Coastal Program may mean a long and expensive road ahead for owners of the Crummer property next the Malibu Bluffs Park.
The Malibu councilman is accused of hit-and-run and reckless driving on Christmas Day.
The developer has proposed five houses with a private gated street, a gatehouse, an onsite wastewater treatment system east of Bluff's Park in Malibu.
In May 1943, the B-24 carrying Louis Zamperini went down over the Pacific. He survived for nearly seven weeks with his pilot on a raft.
The home was bequeathed to the university by Philip and Genevieve May, renowned UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute schizophrenia experts.
Every dollar that is donated can supply three meals for the hungry in Los Angeles County.
Malibu Search and Rescue found the biker in the dark in Malibu Tuesday.
The Cheeseboro Reservoir, capable of holding four million gallons of water, and a pump station at Palo Comado Canyon will be removed during April and May.
