Border Report launches podcast

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) -- Border Report is excited to announce a new way to provide readers with local stories about people living, working and migrating along the U.S.- Mexico border.

Starting on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024, Border Report will launch a new podcast, featuring our correspondents along the border and host Chip Brewster, of WGN in Chicago.

Episodes will air live at 11 a.m. EDT on Fridays.

On the first installment, the correspondents give an overview of the vast regions they cover for the Border Report website and Nexstar stations across the country and their respective websites.

Representing the Rio Grande Valley of deep South Texas will be Border Report's South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez. She is also are reporter for her home station of CBS4 and NBC23 in Harlingen, Texas, but she is based out of McAllen, Texas. Sanchez is a former USA Today reporter; former opinion editor for The Monitor in McAllen and Waco-Tribune Herald. Sanchez is also the former national editor for the Austin-American Statesman. She has written two books, including “American Deadline," which came out in May 2023.

Sanchez covers the border and immigration in South Texas, and her reporting takes her from Brownsville, Texas, to Del Rio, Texas. The region encompasses three of the Border Patrol's nine sectors: Rio Grande Valley, Laredo and Del Rio.

Julian Resendiz is a long-time journalist and has worked for numerous Texas newspapers, including the Dallas Morning-News, Brownsville Herald, El Paso Times and El Paso Herald-Post. He has also written for the Associated Press.

Resendiz is known for his coverage of Mexican politics and crime, focusing on human-rights abuses and government corruption. He was among the first to report on the serial killings of women in Ciudad Juarez in 1993 and the drug-cartel wars the following years.

Resendiz continues to cover Mexico for Border Report and KTSM in El Paso, and often travels to Mexican communities across the border from Arizona to the west, and as far east to Reynosa, across from McAllen.  

Way out west is Salvador Rivera, Border Report's California correspondent. With decades of experience as a broadcast journalist, he is the winner of winner of six Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow award. He has worked in Las Vegas, Fresno and Los Angeles, and is currently based out of FOX 5 in San Diego.

Rivera covers immigration, border crime and cross-border trade for Border Report, but he also covered Hurricane Katrina and presidential elections on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, in addition to several Super Bowls and World Series.

Border Report launched in July 2019. That fall, the team embarked on a 10-day border tour that took the from the border wall that sticks out into the Pacific Ocean in San Diego, to the Texas border town of Brownsville on the Gulf Coast.

The team traveled in a state-of-the-art vehicle equipped with IP satellite technology and multiple interior and exterior cameras, allowing audiences to see the journalists’ live reporting as they were in motion driving along the border.

Since Day 1, the mission of BorderReport.com was to "provide real-time delivery of the untold local stories about people living, working and migrating along the U.S. border with Mexico ... by by experienced and trusted Nexstar Media Group journalists hired specifically to cover the border."

In October 2020, the Radio Television Digital News Association honored Border Report with a National Edward R. Murrow Award, one of the most prestigious honors in the news industry.

RTDNA awarded Border Report for “Excellence in Innovation.”