WLRN’s Ammy Sanchez To Appear At MDC Journalism Speaker Series

Ammy Sanchez, WLRN’s Morning Edition producer, will be the next guest at the Miami Dade College Journalism Speaker Series on July 23.

The interview will take place at 11 a.m. at North Campus, 11380 N.W. 27th Ave., Room 2131.

At WLRN, the 22-year-old reports and writes copy for the morning anchor and also has on-air segments. 

Sanchez began at the station in September of 2022 as a radio intern for four months, helping in the production of the South Florida Roundup. After the internship, she served as a freelancer at the news outlet for eight months before being hired full-time.

In January of 2023, Sanchez was selected for NPR’s Next Generation Radio, a five-day digital journalism program. Six months later she participated in the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ Latino Reporter project.

At MDC, she served as forum editor, briefing editor, social media director and editor-in-chief of The Reporter. 

During her two years at the College, she wrote stories about an 11-year-old dual-enrollment student, the Freedom Tower and an 85-year-old custodian who retired from North Campus after working at the school for more than 50 years.

In 2022, she was an Associated Collegiate Press finalist in the Reporter of The Year and Sports Feature Story categories and a Pinnacle Award finalist in the Best Profile category.   

“I credit so much of who I am to The Reporter,” Sanchez said. “The person that I was when I started working there is nowhere near the person that I am today.” 

Sanchez earned an associate degree in mass communications and journalism from North Campus in 2022 and a bachelor’s degree in organizational communication from Florida International University in 2024. 

The MDC Journalism Speaker Series was launched in February of 2008 to provide students the opportunity to network with working journalists. More than 86 journalists have participated in the series since its inception.