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Stories spanning local news, housing, education, culture, and issues impacting Bay Area communities.

Hi, I’m Amanda Hernandez, a multimedia journalist passionate about telling impactful stories across radio, broadcast, and digital platforms. As a recent graduate of San Francisco State University’s Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts program, I’ve built experience in anchoring, reporting, producing, and multimedia storytelling in fast-paced newsroom environments.

As a non-traditional student who returned to school in 2022, journalism became more than a career path,it became a purpose. Before transferring to SFSU, I earned my AA in Journalism from Bakersfield College and gained early newsroom experience as a web producer at KGET 17 News.

My work has expanded across television news, radio, documentary filmmaking, and digital journalism, including reporting and producing stories at KQED covering housing, education, weather, and social issues. I’m especially passionate about housing, social justice, breaking news, and stories that amplify underrepresented voices. No matter the platform, my goal is to tell stories with empathy, accuracy, and integrity.

From Sixth Street to Golden Gate Ave. (2026)

Director • Cinematographer • Additional Editor

A fifteen-minute documentary following small business owner that follows Billy Alabsi, a Yemeni immigrant rebuilding his life and business after homelessness, exploring resilience, community and the realities of the American Dream. 

Audio Journalism

Produced radio stories and newscasts covering local news, housing, education, weather, and community issues across the Bay Area, with experience in reporting, scriptwriting, audio editing, and field recording.

KALW •

Landmark AI transparency law takes effect in California

A new California law took effect over the weekend, aimed at enforcing AI transparency.The California AI Transparency Act requires companies to embed data into AI-generated digital content.Eddan Katz is the head of Public Policy and Affairs at Encypher, which verifies AI content. He says that standards set by California and the European Union give users a history of when and how the content was created and how it may have changed using AI tools over time."Think of it as a tamper-proof nutrition l...
KALW •

Project Open Hand serves its 30 millionth meal today

Project Open Hand delivered its 30 millionth meal today to San Francisco resident Nicholas Galarza of Noe Valley.Galarza, who lives with HIV, has been a recipient of meals since 2020. He says the program helped him during a time when he faced job loss and now he continues to receive weekly meals and groceries.At a press conference outside his apartment, Chief Nutrition Officer at Project Open Hand, Katie Jackson, says that a 30 millionth meal is more than just food."It's the opportunity to conne...
KALW •

BART brings back 10-car trains as ridership surges

For the first time since the pandemic, the yellow and red lines are now running 10 car trains during peak hours. BART is also adding train cars to the green and blue line.BART Spokesperson, Chris Filippi says this is in part due to a 19% growth in ridership from last year. He says that an increase in public events like the World Cup, Pride weekend, and summer music festivals are part of the reason why."Beyond that we are also seeing more people ride BART during commute hours as hybrid work sched...
KALW •

Several Bay Area cities off track to meet housing target by 2031

Under the California Regional Housing Needs Allocation program, California was supposed to build 2.5 million housing units by 2031. More than 400,000 of those were supposed to be in the bay.But San Francisco and other major Bay Area cities are nowhere near that goal, raising more questions about the ongoing housing crisis.San Francisco, which was supposed to build more than 82,000 units by 2031, has built just over five thousand units.Other Bay Area cities are even further behind. Foster City ha...

FIFA World Cup Draw

Falafelland Grand Opening

Broadcast Journalism

Anchored and produced State of Events, a student-run television news program, developing on-camera delivery, scriptwriting, and newsroom production skills.

Digital Journalism

Reported and produced digital stories covering local news, community issues, and public-interest topics, with experience in writing, interviewing, multimedia storytelling, and deadline-driven reporting.

KQED •

Storm Forecasted to Hit the Bay Area Early Next Week as Typhoon Halong Hits Japan | KQED

The Bay Area can expect an unusually turbulent storm for this time of year, but exactly how much rain will land early next week is still unclear.
The storm is expected to follow a powerful typhoon that hit the western Pacific on Thursday morning, reaching high speeds and forcing some residents in Japan to evacuate.
While expected to dissipate over the next few days, Typhoon Halong’s impacts on the jet stream could steer a high-pressure system across the Pacific, and toward California — causing a...
San Francisco Foghorn •

Food, Music, and Fun on the Hilltop - San Francisco Foghorn

The scents of clam chowder, empanadas, grilled chicken, and an array of other foods drifted over a lively crowd of nearly 2,000  students, faculty, family members and alumni on Welch Field on Saturday, Oct. 19 as part of USF’s annual Celebrate USF Food and Music Festival. 


As students took a break from their academic responsibilities, they gathered alongside staff, faculty and alumni savoring the various dishes, grabbing free USF blankets and engaging in conversation with their family and fri...
San Francisco Foghorn •

Women’s Triathlon carries high aspirations into new season - San Francisco Foghorn

The USF triathlon team opened their 2024 season on Sept. 1 at Mt. Shasta, where they dominated by a 35-point margin over California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), earning a first place finish in a five team race.


In front of the pack was sophomore, Mairte Kuestner, finishing with a time of  57:40 and leading the rest of her team into victory as all eight dons finished within the top 13 spots. 


“I think overall our team did very well, we came in close together which is a good sign...
KGET 17 News •

Who are Trezell and Jacqueline West? Still little known about couple

BAKERSFIELD, Calif (KGET) — After two years of public scrutiny, there is still little information about Trezell Phillip West and Jacqueline Gabrielle Vasquez West who were convicted Friday in connection to the disappearance of their adopted sons, Orrin and Orson.


The two were found guilty of five of seven counts, including murder. The jury found the Wests guilty in the death of Orrin.


Trezell West, 36, and Jacqueline West, 33, had no local arrest records prior to December 2020.
When the bo...
KGET 17 News •

Yoga Culture, new downtown studio to host Puppy Yoga classes this summer

BAKERSFIELD, Calif (KGET) — Yoga Culture Bakersfield, a new studio in downtown, is hosting Puppy Yoga Classes at their new location in the marketplace.


The City of Bakersfield Animal Care Center is bringing in adoptable puppies for the yoga session and all participants will have an opportunity to adopt one for free at the event.


This class will be held on the first Saturday in June, July and August.
The purpose of the event is to raise funds, awareness and allow some puppies to find new ho...
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