Alejandra Marquez Janse
Alejandra Marquez Janse is a producer for NPR's evening news program All Things Considered. She was part of a team that traveled to Uvalde, Texas, months after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary to cover its impact on the community. She also helped script and produce NPR's first bilingual special coverage of the State of the Union – broadcast in Spanish and English.
Before joining the show as an intern in 2021, Marquez Janse was an intern for South Florida's NPR member station, WLRN. She is a proud graduate of Florida International University, where she studied journalism and political science.
Marquez Janse was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney of the country music duo Dan + Shay about their new album, Bigger Houses.
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Sorry Jets fans, the hits just keep on coming. The latest came on Monday night, when quarterback Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles tendon just four plays into his debut with the team. -
The manhunt for convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from a prison near Philadelphia last month, is nearing the two-week mark. So how do authorities find him?
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Brent Davison, Troop B Commander for the New York State Police, about what it takes to search for prison escapees.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Hamed Aleaziz of The LA Times about his reporting on asylum seekers from majority-Muslim countries getting disproportionately imprisoned in a Texas district.
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Hundreds of thousands of Floridians have had to make a choice this week as Hurricane Idalia neared the state, heeding evacuation orders or staying put at home.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Mutaqee Akbar, president of the Tallahassee branch of the NAACP, about the Jacksonville shooting in which a white gunman killed three Black people and then himself.
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Sandra Guzmán once heard an alarming statistic: Every 14 days, an Indigenous language dies around the world. So she created a new multilingual project centered on Latin American women.
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Recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom were released earlier in 2023.
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When Matthew López thought about adapting the acclaimed book into a movie, he he had a very clear idea about what a central sex scene should look like.
