Ammy Sanchez
Morning Edition ProducerAmmy Sanchez serves as WLRN's Morning Edition producer and works with the morning anchor to write reports for the newscasts.
She is studying communications at the Honors College at Florida International University. Prior to transferring, Sanchez graduated with an associate’s degree in mass communications and journalism from The Honors College at Miami Dade College in 2022. At MDC, she served as editor-in-chief, briefing editor, forum editor and social media director of The Reporter, the college’s student newspaper.
Sanchez has also participated in NPR's Next Generation Radio and the Latino Reporter, the student project at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
She can be reached at asanchez@wlrnnews.org.
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On the South Florida Roundup, WLRN’s Tim Padgett spoke about the county’s longstanding quality of life problems related to traffic, housing unaffordability and low wages.
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The Florida Department of Education has issued new standards for teaching Black history in public schools. On the South Florida Roundup, we discussed reaction to the controversy.
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This week on the South Florida Roundup: Miami-Dade County moves to protect workers from this terrible heat, Florida Atlantic University’s president selection is in chaos (19:33), but right now — it’s all about soccer here, as Messi mania and the Women's World Cup get underway (35:03).
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The resignation of Miami-Dade County’s trash chief last week came just months after a fire at the Covanta trash incinerator plant in Doral shut it down indefinitely. Without it, the county’s trash is filling up landfills — quickly. Chief Operations Officer Jimmy Morales and Commissioner Raquel Regalado told WLRN how they view the situation.
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A look into where Miami-Dade County is going to take all its trash, South Florida’s small public airports leading the country in toxic lead pollution (19:00) and the 200-year anniversary of America’s southernmost county (34:24).
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Hialeah leaders are grappling with new revelations about the city's 911 system.
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This week’s episode discusses Hialeah’s troubled 911 emergency call dispatch system, new revelations about Miami-Dade County’s Guardianship program (18:32) and whether Guatemala’s presidential election is reason for hope (36:08).
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There are a lot of important things happening in Colombia right now. The government of Gustavo Petro – its first-ever leftist president – is in big turmoil, while a small plane crash that made international headlines put its most neglected population in the positive spotlight it deserves.
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This week on The South Florida Roundup, we discussed Florida’s migrant labor, whether Broward County finally put its recent troubles behind it with the selection of a new superintendent (18:40) and Colombia seeing messes (34:54).
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Haiti recently saw flooding and landslides that killed more than 50 people and forced tens of thousands from their homes, before being struck by a major earthquake that killed at least four people. On The South Florida Roundup, we discussed the difficulties Haiti faces.
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A Parkland school resource officer faces an unprecedented trial, Lionel Messi is coming to Miami (19:40) and battered Haiti needs our help more than ever (35:16).
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A civil rights lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against Florida health regulators a decade ago has finally gone to trial. Carol Marbin Miller, the deputy investigations editor at the Miami Herald, spoke to WLRN about the case, and her eye-opening reporting on the living conditions of these children.