Alysia Cruz
Alysia Cruz is the WUSF Stephen Noble news intern for the fall 2019 semester. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at the University of South Florida in Communication and is now enrolled at USF St. Petersburg, pursuing her Master’s in Digital Journalism & Design concentrating on food writing.
In the years since graduating from USF, Alysia has worked as a theatre and journalism teacher, running The Minotaur yearbook program and starting The Minotaur online newspaper at Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, FL. She also spent time working in TV production as a production coordinator and live theater as a stage manager.
Alysia hopes to become a food and travel journalist in the future, expanding reporting on these subjects within public media.
-
As coronavirus cases continue to rise in Florida, people are looking for alternate ways to vote in the upcoming primary and general elections.With almost… -
Florida school districts have begun to release their plans to bring students back to school in August amid the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic. On… -
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday the state will be moving forward carefully and encouraged Floridians to continue following social distancing… -
As Hillsborough County students prepare for school in August, the district is working on what that return will look like.During a school board workshop on… -
Though a state dashboard shows some hospitals are nearing capacity, Gov. Ron DeSantis and health care executives from around Florida said Friday there are… -
According to an updated model by PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Florida has the potential to be the next epicenter of the coronavirus… -
WUSF will be providing the latest news and information on coronavirus in Tampa Bay and across the state. Here are the latest developments:Here are the… -
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is continuing to ease restrictions related to the coronavirus, despite the state seeing record increases in new cases of… -
Amidst continued protests against police brutality across the Tampa Bay area, law enforcement agencies in Pinellas County say they are working together to… -
The deadline for candidates to qualify in Florida for state senator and representative races was noon today. Here's a list of the candidates who qualified…
