Francesca Lombardo

Francesca Lombardo is an Italian-British journalist, copywriter and an independent author who has been living in London since 1997. Prior to her journalistic career, she has worked in London for Thomson Reuters, Ink publishing and London based starts up companies. She graduated from La Sapienza in Rome in Media Study and Literature and in 2005 has obtained a Master's degree in Printed Journalism from the LCC of London. She has been reporting for for SkyCinema Italy from London since 2010 as well worked as film correspondent for La Repubblica's Saturday magazine: La Repubblica delle Donne. As a journalist, her writing has been published by the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, the Herald (Scotland), The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Express, Express, The Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, A Place in the Sun, Vogue Italy, D Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore and many other outlets.

Francesca Lombardo brings a unique combination of marketing/business and journalistic/editorial experience in the media, entertainment, property sector and educational field and in the high tech sector. She has co-founded a film production company working as the Director for Marketing and Communication and launched the pre-production global marketing campaign of the company's IP. In 2014 she has founded Daily Fairy Tales, an independent publishing company which undertook the production, the marketing and the distribution of her children's book series Beatrice and the London Bus now available on Waterstones, Foyles, Amazon, Guardian Books, Daily Mail books, Ebay, Walmart, etc and its spin offs, including the official book series' song.  In addition to this, she works as a consultant  on copywriting, communication, marketing and content production projects. She has authored a children's book series titled Beatrice and the London Bus which is available on Amazon globally (and many other online stores) and created an educational project London Meets its children collaborating with the GLA (Greater London Authority) Educational Department, Kids Company, Merlin Entertainment (London Eye) and the London Transport Museum. She presented the Beatrice and the London Bus book series on London Live News in 2017 and she has delivered numerous book events and workshops in primary schools, universities and educational organisations. She has published a long form poem on this website; "The Passing Stranger, The Intrepid Sailor and the Silent Captain" and is currently working on other writing projects including an Hallowing Edition for Beatrice and the London Bus book series.

She also writes and compose songs, music and lyrics. The lyrics have published in a book titled "Singing in the storm" , available on Amazon.