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Alex Sanz

While in Indianapolis, Alex was part of a team of reporters sent to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast. Through his reports as an embedded reporter, he chronicled the journey of the Indiana National Guard in Mississippi. He also traveled to Mexico with the Indianapolis police and fire departments to report on their international training mission. His series, "Badges without Borders," received the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists first place award for Best Coverage of Minority Issues. The judges called it a story "well-traveled, well-told and well-shot." While at WTHR, he contributed live reports to CNN, MSNBC and NBC Weather Plus.

Alex was a morning anchor and reporter at News 12 The Bronx in New York City before joining WTHR in 2003. At News 12, he anchored the weekday morning newscasts and covered Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration. During his time in The Bronx, he co-anchored News 12 Network coverage of the Blackout of 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom and the loss of space shuttle Columbia. Alex also co-anchored News 12’s weekly public affairs program, "2 & 1: Two Reporters and the Person of the Week."

He joined News 12 The Bronx in 2001 after working as a freelance reporter at WFTS-TV in Tampa. His television career began at the Channel One Network in Los Angeles, where he covered news across the country and around the world. As an anchor and correspondent for "Channel One News," nearly 9 million people in 12,000 secondary schools nationwide watched Alex's reports. His travels took him to over 30 states and nearly a dozen countries. While at Channel One, he covered the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in Central America, the drug war in Mexico, the worst tornadoes in Oklahoma’s history and the Academy Awards. He also covered the White House and Capitol Hill. In 2000, The Imagen Foundation honored his feature "Hero Street," about the small town of Silvis, Ill., with a Best Children's Programming Award. And in 1999, "Channel One News" followed him on a personal journey to Cuba where he traced his family’s history. Prior to joining the Channel One Network in 1998, Alex worked in morning-drive radio. He anchored news headlines at WMMS-FM in Cleveland and anchored and produced at WPLL-FM in Miami.

His career in journalism began at the "South Florida Sun-Sentinel," where he reported and wrote news and feature stories for the Metro, Lifestyle and Community News sections of the newspaper as a freelance writer. While there, he received awards for his reporting and writing and was honored as a most valuable staffer.

Alex is a South Florida native who studied broadcast journalism at Florida International University in Miami. He has a degree in English and journalism from the University Systems of Maryland.

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