Christie Ileto Age, Ethnicity, Height, Married, Husband ( Wiki Bio ) Salary (2024)

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• Mar 20, 2024Mar 20, 2024

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

• Christie Ileto is an Emmy award-winning journalist & reporter currently working at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.
• One of Ileto’s most known stories was the coverage of the Baltimore riots following Freddie Gray death.

• Christie Ileto was born on October 3, 1985, in Washington, DC.
• She has a younger sister and is a third-generation Filipino, as her father is originally from San Ildefonso, Bulacan in the Philippines.
• Ileto refers herself to as an Afro-Asian.
• She studied at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism. She was also a part of Northwestern News Network, a student-run newscast for the city of Evanston.
• Christie married her husband Brandon Patterson on December 10, 2016. She was pictured walking down the aisle with her father, and later, the newlyweds posed for a photo in front of the Christmas tree at Union Station in Washington, D.C.
• In late 2020, the couple had their first child – a baby daughter named Clark Patterson. When Christie’s doctor checked her six weeks after giving birth, he noticed something…she was suffering from postpartum depression. Christie was surprised as thought that the emotions she’d been experiencing were caused by a lack of sleep. Additionally, she denied the issue due to the very few conversations she had with others about this disorder.

• Christie started her career as a reporter at WAFF, Huntsville, AL, where she did the news in the Tennessee Valley. She covered extreme weather like tornadoes and covered the general election. She worked there from October 2007 to September 2009.
• Her next work stint led her to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she worked for KOAT-TV as a reporter. She was hired as a General Assignment Reporter for all newscasts. She covered numerous live reporting and breaking news coverage on a daily basis while working here for another two years from October 2009 to 2012.
• Christie then accepted a job at WJZ in Baltimore, MD, where she was a live reporter for all news shows and broke stories for the 11 o’clock nightly newscast, covering local crime, extreme weather, as well as local and national stories in Washington, D.C.
• She worked at WJZ for three years before moving on to her present position at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, where she’s been working since 2015.

• While working for WJZ in Baltimore, Christie was of the first journalists to extensively cover the arrest of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old who died from spinal injuries while in police custody.
• When riots broke out after news of his death spread, Christie was on the ground covering it. She covered this for the next twelve hours and gave viewers an in-depth and inside view of the riots and the reasons leading up to it.
• While covering, Christie was accidentally maced twice and was a target of rogue beer bottles thrown around. She stood firm till she was pushed back for fear of being engulfed in flames after the riots turned extremely violent.
• After the riots had ended, she continued her coverage of the aftermath that included citywide protests for police reform, the sweeping changes to police brass, and the undercurrent of violence that gripped the city in the months that followed.
• When she was working in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she appeared on CNN for breaking weather coverage to show the nation how New Mexicans were struggling with the barrage of weather that shut down a major interstate from the Texas state line to Arizona.

• Christie loves working towards her fitness and is a regular at her barre ballet classes.
• She also attempts to prepare her father’s recipes to show her family back in Manila, Philippines.

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