Joanna Montgomery

Disclaimer: While place descriptions and news events may coincide with the real world, all characters and the plot are fictional.
== Biography ==
=== Early Years ===
Nothing is known of Joanna's early years. She briefly mentions not wanting her parents to know what she's does, but doesn't seem to have family who care for her - the EWN team is her family.
=== Eyewitness News ===
Joanna Montgomery is the Sports Editor, heading an all-female team of sports reporters.
==== Book 1: Stories We Tell ====
On Friday May 22, 2020, Joanna has a story about how to stay safe and still have a family softball game during COVID.
Ryan and Joanna go for a run up from EWN into the West Hills and back on Wednesday June 3. Ryan suggests a story on gym withdrawal, and Joanna says she'll assign a reporter and ask for a videographer. She thinks it could be a good series, that they're used to thinking of sports as covering competitive teams but they need to broaden their scope.
==== Book 2: Choose ====
At the editors' meeting on Saturday, October 17, Ryan runs through minor agenda items smoothly, then introduces discussion on the protests, the attempted raid, what happens next, and the six blackmail photos sent to Carroll. It's not clear if Joanna stays for the discussion..
==== Book 3: Don't Go ====
When Cage returns to EWN late on Wednesday October 21, and starts talking about the start of the ICE protest in 2018, Joanna and other sports reporters moves closer to listen. Cage had interviewed some of the protesters about agents tearing down students' posters from the adjoining school fence. The protesters plan to meet on Saturday to make new posters for the school fence. Cage says before he records them doing that, EWN needs to decide if they will cover that protest. Lam asks why wouldn't they, when they've been covering the BLM protests downtown. Emily replies that Ryan had made the argument to PSU administration that downtown was 'in their neighborhood', but the ICE facility is further out. Joanna Montgomery says ICE is closer to PSU than the Moda Center sports arena on the other side of the river, and they cover all PSU sports played there.
==== Book 4: Hold Me ====
* Tuesday December 1, 2020 - Noon: Emily arrives EWN for a staff meeting as one of the advertising staff has tested positive for COVID - his roommate was on the basketball team that played a tournament in Boise ID the previous weekend. Emily relays Cage's briefing, and asks who covered the tournament, and if anyone has heard from Joanna. Ben says that Joanna covered it, and she's not answering her phone. Emily says they need to do a wellness check on her, and asks if sports posted copy the previous night. Will checks the website and says it was updated at midnight. There wasn't much as it was a Monday night, so just a new lead story and a new column. Emily asks Ben how they track down Joanna's roommates to do a wellness check. Ben snickers he doesn't know Joanna as well as Robert Smithson does, but she tells him to make some calls. Ben returns from his office, saying Joanna has been at the Health Clinic since updating the EWN website the night before, when she started showing symptoms - she's still waiting to be tested. Emily asks about the rest of the sports staff. Ben says Joanna filed from home, and they used footage from the Boise game as B-roll for the news broadcast. He doesn't think any sports reporters were at EWN during the broadcast. Bianca agrees she hadn't seen any sportswriters the previous night. Emily tells Ben to track them all down and then call Joanna back and get the name of every person she's been in contact with since the Boise trip two days before. They'll do their own contact tracing, as rumor is that Campus Health Services may not consider it a priority. 
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In November 2020, Joanna travels with the basketball team to cover a tournament in Boise, Idaho. She starts showing symptoms on November 30. On December 1, Carrie took her up to OHSU, as Joanne is really sick. When they tested Carrie, she was also COVID-positive. All the sports reporters are sick.
== Physical Appearance ==
Joanna is a slim, firm-breasted, muscled athlete, and looks it. In the past she has played co-ed rugby - Ryan Matthews went to watch her games in 2019. 
She has brown hair, sometimes pulled back with a scrunchie.
She wears sports clothing - a gray tank under a black jacket, with black warm-ups.
== Personality ==
There is no artifice to Joanna, no coyness. She's not given to heart-to-heart conversations or deep analysis. 
Her life centers around competitive sports - playing them, writing about them, partying with jocks and living with them. 
She has a characteristic giggle and no filter after two beers. 
== Relationships ==
=== Ryan Matthews ===
==== Book 1: Stories We Tell ====
Joanna has sex with Ryan Matthews after the popup party in the Crow's Nest on Friday May 22, at her instigation. This was not their first time together. Ryan appreciates that as a lover, Joanna is playful, athletic, straightforward and comes prepared with condoms.
=== Robert Smithson ===
==== Book 2: Choose ====
At the Loft party on Friday October 16, Joanna is one of the sports reporters to 'try out' Robert Smithson's new Prince Albert piercing.
=== Teresa Valdez ===
==== Book 3: Don't Go ====
Teresa was a roommate for a time while at PSU, and even after leaving she stays in contact with Joanna. Joanna tells her that Ryan has become clean and sober, and that the media board has chosen him twice as EIC.
== Residence ==
In 2020, Joanna shares an apartment with Carrie. 
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