Camryn Sanchez
Field CorrespondentCamryn 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.
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A text over the weekend from Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign to students at Arizona’s three public universities had some Republican lawmakers crying foul. However, the schools say there was nothing nefarious about it. -
Three and a half months that were supposed to be filled with bipartisan negotiation on rural groundwater management have not yielded a deal between Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. They haven’t really been meeting. -
Arizona Republicans say they’re fed up with Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes due to a glitch in the state’s voter registration data, which now suggests roughly 218,000 voters may not have provided proof of citizenship when registering. -
The race between a moderate Republican running against a moderate Democrat in Maricopa County’s third district could determine whether the county’s Board of Supervisors remains under Republican control. -
In this year’s Arizona Voter Survey put out by the Center for the Future of Arizona; respondents report that they care more about issues than political parties. -
A political operative was indicted on felony charges following an investigation into unsent mailers Maricopa County Democrats paid for in 2022. -
A conservative think tank says Gilbert plans to impose an illegal “pickleball tax.” The problem is a disagreement over the difference between goods and services. -
Arizona’s Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is supporting a new lawsuit against his own office. It’s from parents who say they’re getting stonewalled by new requirements on Arizona’s school voucher program. -
Hear 2024 Arizona propositions translated in the Navajo language. -
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs announced the creation of a new workforce initiative on Wednesday.
