
Phil Latzman
Host - MorningPhil Latzman is an award-winning digital journalist and broadcast professional with over 25 years of experience covering news and sports on a multitude of platforms.
Latzman moved to Arizona in 2015 to be a part of what, he feels, is the best public media operation in the country at KJZZ. Before that. he was a reporter and columnist for the Tribune Company's South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
For a decade, Latzman served as morning news anchor and reporter for Florida's largest NPR station, WLRN. While there, he was part of WLRN's groundbreaking collaboration with the Miami Herald and was host and creator of the station’s weekly public affairs program, The Florida Roundup.
Latzman has interviewed some of the world's most interesting people from political circles to the entertainment world, while hosting a variety of talk shows, ranging from hard news to sports. His work has been honored numerous times by the Florida Associated Press, Society of Professional Journalists for newscasts and for feature reporting on such topics as elections, Cuba and sports. Latzman also served as a Florida network correspondent covering everything from hurricanes to politics for NPR and other national media outlets.
Prior to coming to WLRN, Latzman was sports director for WIOD and WINZ, where he hosted a nightly sports-talk show and anchored coverage of Miami Dolphins, Miami Hurricanes and Miami Heat broadcasts. His was the first voice heard on WQAM when it became South Florida’s first all-sports radio station in 1992.
Latzman is a New York native who spent his formative years in broadcasting at WABC Radio, where he produced, edited and screened various talk shows in addition to New York Yankees baseball broadcasts.
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Bird flu is forcing farmers in Arizona and beyond to euthanize millions of laying hens and driving up egg prices. Experts say producers may have to starting using a vaccine on birds, and some worry the virus could mutate to affect humans.
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Around 40 million laying chickens nationwide have been euthanized nationwide in the outbreak. More than 1 million of them were at one of the Southwest’s largest egg companies, Hickman’s Family Farms, based in Buckeye.
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Brittney Griner plans to sign with the Atlanta Dream, marking the end of her 11-year career with the Phoenix Mercury. Griner announced the move in a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday night.
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Scottsdale’s Hunkapi Farms is providing safe haven for horses from Southern California. The owner and volunteers want to go back and help even more of them.
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The ASU football team has been spending its Christmas break getting ready to play on New Year’s Day in the Peach Bowl. And the Sun Devils now know it will be Texas they’ll be facing in Atlanta in the quarterfinals of college football’s new playoff tournament.
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The Arizona State football team is back at practice preparing for a New Year’s Day game in the new college football playoff system. But they don't know who their opponent will be yet.
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But 18-year-old Yuliia Vyskrebenets from Ukraine has bigger worries than the usual college jitters as she begins her college career in Tucson, where she's studying philosophy, politics, economics and law.
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ASU needs no extra motivation in their annual Territorial Cup rivalry game against Arizona. But this year the 14th-ranked Sun Devils have a much greater incentive.
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Orest Jejna is a Scottsdale city judge and part of a local delegation that has lobbied Congress to continue supporting Ukraine.
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After a hot October and a cool start to November, temperatures are poised to be right around normal this week, with mostly sunny skies around the Valley.