Cat's Eye News students produce first Spanish newscast
Anchors Mario Sosa and Flo Tomasi.
Students in Arizona Cat's Eye, the University of Arizona School of Journalism's capstone broadcast course, produced the first ever Cat's Eye News show entirely in Spanish this spring.
This marks the second Cat's Eye newscast to air this semester under the guidance of adjunct instructor Donald Jordan, who works as an executive producer for KVOA-TV in Tucson.
The student-produced stories featured in the latest episode, which cover topics such as AI usage in academic settings and student government's response to recent executive orders, were originally reported in English before being translated and voiced over by Spanish-speaking students Mario Sosa, Marissa Orr, Pablo Rojas and Flo Tomasi.
Sosa and Tomasi, who along with Rojas, are graduate students in the Bilingual Journalism Program, served as the episode's studio anchors. Orr served as the show's executive producer.
Cat's Eye News is produced in the Adelaida and Barry Severson Family Broadcast Studio and new episodes can be found on the School of Journalism's YouTube channel.