Kris Sanchez is in her 20th year of telling our community’s stories on NBC Bay Area and Telemundo 48. As a member of the “Today in the Bay” morning team, her specialty is thinking fast, often in English and Spanish! Kris covers our local issues, breaking news from the safety of our communities to natural disasters like wildfires and the many quakes large and small that rock our region. Kris also contributed to coverage that earned prestigious Murrow and Peabody Awards and was honored by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists for her feature, “Cesar Chavez, A Legacy of Hope.”
Before calling San Jose home, Kris anchored and reported in Grand Junction, Colorado, El Paso, Texas and Fresno. She also worked for Channel One news, a current events network for middle and high school students across the nation. As a correspondent, she covered the 2000 presidential campaign, covered the hand-over of the Panama Canal and humanitarian work in Guatemala.
Kris graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in Journalism and Spanish Language. As a journalist, Kris takes pleasure in being a life-long learner who can find the human element in every story. Her reporting philosophy is listen more, talk less. Kris is a governor with the Northern California Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and as an Emmy Awards vice-chair is helping to grow the Spanish competition. Off camera, Kris is married to a fellow journalist and together they are the proud parents of two teenaged daughters who are bilingual students in our public schools.
Many weekends you can find Kris reading or knitting under a pop-up tent at a swim meet somewhere around in the Bay Area.
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Testimony slated to start in retrial of Sierra LaMar murder case
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San Jose City Council to vote on new name for downtown plaza
The City Council will vote on whether to approve “Plaza del Pueblo de San Jose” as the new and permanent name of the downtown landmark.
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Ceremony honors former SFPD Deputy Chief Ann Mannix and daughter
During the funeral mass, family outlined the legacy the two women now leave behind.
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San Jose community pushes to rebuild MACSA youth center destroyed by fire
A San Jose neighborhood is working to rebuild a center that it says was the heart of the community. The building that once housed the MACSA youth center in the Mayfair community burned to the ground in August of last year. At the time, community members told NBC Bay Area what the center meant to them and their families. Since…
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Sen. Adam Schiff raises concerns after SFO immigration holding facility visit
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Palo Alto tightens restrictions on overnight RV parking
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Gilroy to vote on extending data center development moratorium
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San Jose leaders discuss standards for data centers
San Jose has been working on standards to make data centers work for the community.
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Sonoma County declares local emergency ahead of expected El Niño flooding
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Local coalition calls for end to federal oversight of Oakland police
Over the past 23 years, the Oakland Police Department has undergone 51 court-ordered reforms.
