Alex Sanz

Alex Sanz is an American journalist, television news anchor and reporter. Presently, he covers the southeastern United States for Associated Press Television News. He joined the international television division of The Associated Press, the world's oldest and largest newsgathering organization, in 2013.
Early Life
Sanz was born in South Florida and attended Stranahan High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He studied broadcast journalism at Florida International University in Miami and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Journalism from the University System of Maryland.
Career
Sanz began his journalism career at the Sun-Sentinel, where he reported and wrote news and feature stories for the Metro, Sports, Lifestyle and Community News sections of the newspaper during his junior and senior years of high school
In 1998, he moved to Los Angeles to work at the Channel One Network.. As an anchor and correspondent for Channel One News, he covered news across the country and around the world, including the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in Central America, the drug war in Mexico and one of the worst tornadoes in Oklahoma's history.
From there, he moved to New York City, where he worked as a morning anchor and reporter at News 12 The Bronx, part of the News 12 Networks. At News 12, he anchored the weekday morning newscasts and covered local, state and national politics. He also co-anchored network coverage of the Blackout of 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom and the loss of space shuttle Columbia. Sanz co-anchored News 12’s weekly public affairs program, 2&1: Two Reporters and the Person of the Week.
Sanz moved to Indianapolis in 2003 to work as a general assignment reporter at Dispatch Broadcast Group television station WTHR. At WTHR, Sanz was part of a team of reporters sent to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina along the United States Gulf Coast where, 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.
In 2006, he moved to Houston to work at Belo-owned KHOU-TV. There, he covered Harris County government and Houston City Hall. At KHOU, Sanz contributed a wide range of enterprise, general assignment and breaking news reports and filled in on the anchor desk.
After five years in Houston, he returned to South Florida to cover government, politics and criminal justice for The E.W. Scripps Company. His reports aired on WPTV-TV and WFLX-TV in South Florida, WFTS-TV in Tampa and other Scripps television stations in the United States.
Since joining The Associated Press, Sanz has reported on the historic floods in South Carolina, the attacks on two U.S. military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the mass shooting at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina and the flight test of the Orion spacecraft in Cape Canaveral, Florida. He reported extensively from Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown, from Dallas after the first cases of Ebola were diagnosed in the United States and from Philadelphia after the Amtrak train derailment.
In addition to his reports for Associated Press Television News, AP Radio Network and the wire service, his work has appeared in The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, TIME and USA TODAY. It has also appeared on ABC News, Al Jazeera America, BBC World News, Inside Edition, National Public Radio, PBS NewsHour and television and and radio stations across the United States.
Awards
Sanz has been honored by the Press Club of Atlantic City, the Society of Professional Journalists and others.
In 2015, he was part of a team of AP journalists honored with National Headliner Awards for their coverage of the Ebola outbreak and the decision of a St. Louis County grand jury not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson after the death of Michael Brown. He was also part of a team of AP journalists honored with a Delta Sigma Chi award for their coverage of the St. Louis County grand jury decision. The Society of Professional Journalists honored Sanz with a Green Eyeshade Award for his coverage of three men from Little Rock, Arkansas, who traveled to Boston to finish the Boston Marathon one year after the April 15, 2013, bombings.
Sanz was part of the KHOU news team honored by the Radio Television Digital News Association with two Edward R. Murrow Awards for its coverage of wildfires in Texas in 2011. He was also nominated for a Lone Star EMMY Award for his coverage of NASA. In 2008, he was part of the station's continuous, Lone Star EMMY and Edward R. Murrow award-winning coverage of Hurricane Ike.
At WTHR, “Badges without Borders,” a series of reports on the international training mission of the Indianapolis police and fire departments, earned him the Indiana Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists first place award for Best Coverage of Minority Issues.
In 2000, The Imagen Foundation honored his feature "Hero Street," about the small town of Silvis, Illinois, with its Best Children's Programming Award.

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