Camryn Sanchez
Field Correspondent | [email protected]Camryn Sanchez is a field correspondent at KJZZ covering everything to do with state politics.
Prior to joining KJZZ, Sanchez worked for two years at the Arizona Capitol Times covering the state Legislature, with a focus on the Arizona Senate.
Sanchez studied journalism at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. In college, she interned at the East Bay Express in Oakland, ELLE Magazine in New York, and the Yonkers Times in Yonkers, New York. She then worked at the Arizona Republic as a Pulliam Fellow covering the city of Phoenix before entering the state politics reporting arena.
Sanchez was recently given the Society for Professional Journalists’ presidential award for her work investigating a state senator’s residency, after the senator in question filed an injunction against Sanchez, which was struck down in court.
Sanchez was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is now a proud California transplant.
Out of the office, she can be found playing volleyball, drinking coffee and/or still talking about politics.
She can be reached at [email protected].
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A new Arizona law will require people to provide identification to verify their age in order to watch pornography. It faces free-speech concerns. -
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wants more federal resources to combat fentanyl. On Wednesday, she issued a statement requesting assistance from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, following up on a letter she sent in March. -
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs said Wednesday that she’s optimistic about Arizona’s chances of augmenting the state’s water supply with desalination. -
The Arizona House of Representatives returned from a weeklong break Tuesday only to announce they’re taking another two weeks off. -
A new Arizona law cracks down on the sale of synthetic opioids that a Republican lawmaker warns are deadlier than fentanyl. -
Another Democrat hopes to challenge Republican Congressman David Schweikert in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District. -
The Maricopa County recorder has offered a new proposal to the county’s Board of Supervisors detailing his duties as they relate to running elections. It’s the latest in a saga of disagreement over the recorder’s job. -
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general oppose a congressional proposal to preempt states from regulating artificial intelligence. -
New Arizona laws protect utilities who start wildfires from a certain amount of liability and allow utilities to transfer debt into low-interests bonds, which critics say will shift the responsibility to cover bad investments onto ratepayers. -
Following the brutal killing of Arizona teenager Emily Pike, lawmakers are reexamining state systems that help children. They are looking to pinpoint issues they can improve on to prevent another tragedy.
