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Noticias WUFT<\/a> Spanish-language News Manager Dania Alexandrino<\/a>, in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications<\/a> Innovation News Center, has been named to the 2026 News Service of Florida Above & Beyond<\/a> cohort. Alexandrino is one of 35 women from diverse fields including education, healthcare, journalism and law to receive the honor.<\/p>\n Alexandrino, a former CNN and Univision journalist, has elevated Spanish-language journalism education in Florida by building one of the nation’s premier university-based bilingual newsrooms. In the past decade, she has done so while preparing the next generation of journalists to serve communities that are too often underrepresented. She also spearheaded a successful Telemundo Academy partnership. This media training program connected students with professionals to create pathways to employment.<\/p>\n In her Noticias WUFT role, she bridges higher education and professional journalism in ways that directly strengthen Florida’s media landscape. She serves as a mentor to her students who don’t simply learn reporting \u2014 they produce broadcast journalism for real audiences, gaining experience as reporters, producers, anchors and multimedia journalists while serving Spanish-speaking audiences.<\/p>\n Beyond the classroom, she strengthens journalism education and public media offerings through statewide outreach, shared faculty governance at UF, community partnerships and national collaboration.<\/p>\n Alexandrino will be recognized at a special reception on Oct. 7 in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noticias WUFT Spanish-language News Manager Dania Alexandrino, in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Innovation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-420319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}