WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation With KJZZ Reporter Jorge Valencia

WUNC | By Jeff Tiberii

Published October 13, 2017 at 12:36 PM EDT

On this week's episode of the WUNCPolitics Podcast, a conversation with former WUNC reporter and producer Jorge Valencia. Jorge now reports from Mexico City for KJZZ, the public radio station in Phoenix.WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii talks with his former reporting sidekick about the recent earthquake in Mexico, staying safe as a reporter, and Jorge's affinity for languages.WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii talks with former WUNC reporter and now KJZZ Mexico Field Correspondent Jorge Valencia.

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Jeff Tiberii first started posing questions to strangers after dinner at La Cantina Italiana, in Massachusetts, when he was two-years-old. Jeff grew up in Wayland, Ma., an avid fan of the Boston Celtics, and took summer vacations to Acadia National Park (ME) with his family. He graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, and moved to North Carolina in 2006. His experience with NPR member stations WAER (Syracuse), WFDD (Winston-Salem) and now WUNC, dates back 15 years.

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