21 min
S04E02 #BreakingNews - Cari Hernandez Tech Conversations at FIU’s Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator
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Welcome back to our FIU Alumni, Cari Hernandez!
A proud panther she is one of the few Black Latinas leading as a News Content Director in an English language newsroom at WUSA-9 in Washington, DC.
Her journey started right here at FIU and has taken her to report and produce countless breaking news events that have affected our communities. In this episode, we discuss coverage of minorities and misinformation in the age of #breakingnews.
Cari is an Emmy award-winning journalist and is recognized along with journalist Jim Defede with the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast and digital journalism. She served as Executive Producer on the 2017 documentary “The Everglades: Where Politics, Money and Race Collide,” a one-hour documentary on the 2016 environmental disaster that hit the Treasure Coast and its relation to Everglades restoration.
About Cari Hernandez:
Hernandez joined WSUA-9 as content discovery and producing lead in 2019. She previously spent 7 years as an executive producer of investigations and special projects at CBS4 Miami.
Previously, she also worked as an executive producer for CNN in Atlanta from 2008 to 2011. Before that, she was an executive producer at NBC6 in Miami.
Welcome back to our FIU Alumni, Cari Hernandez!
A proud panther she is one of the few Black Latinas leading as a News Content Director in an English language newsroom at WUSA-9 in Washington, DC.
Her journey started right here at FIU and has taken her to report and produce countless breaking news events that have affected our communities. In this episode, we discuss coverage of minorities and misinformation in the age of #breakingnews.
Cari is an Emmy award-winning journalist and is recognized along with journalist Jim Defede with the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast and digital journalism. She served as Executive Producer on the 2017 documentary “The Everglades: Where Politics, Money and Race Collide,” a one-hour documentary on the 2016 environmental disaster that hit the Treasure Coast and its relation to Everglades restoration.
About Cari Hernandez:
Hernandez joined WSUA-9 as content discovery and producing lead in 2019. She previously spent 7 years as an executive producer of investigations and special projects at CBS4 Miami.
Previously, she also worked as an executive producer for CNN in Atlanta from 2008 to 2011. Before that, she was an executive producer at NBC6 in Miami.
21 min