Email RebeccaRebecca Medina is an award-winning journalist from Miami, Florida. Rebecca graduated from Florida International University and began her career in local news at WSVN, the Fox station in Miami, Florida. There she worked as a writer and was bitten by the news bug. Rebecca fell in love with the intensity of breaking news and the pride of being first on the scene. After another short stint as an associate producer for WTVJ in Miami, Rebecca left for El Paso, Texas for her first on-air job as a reporter at KDBC.
As a border journalist she crossed into Mexico to cover the brutal murders of hundreds of women murdered in Ciudad-Juarez. Rebecca also covered the immigration hearings of Luis Posada-Carriles, the anti-Castro terrorist accused of taking down a Cuban airliner in 1976. Rebecca was recognized for her work in El Paso. In 2006, The National Association of Hispanic Journalists awarded Rebecca for her story of a woman who met the family of a Mexican-American soldier she tried to save in Iraq during a mortar attack. In 2005, Rebecca left for WPTY in Memphis, Tennessee and covered the corruption of the “Tennessee Waltz,” which landed several elected officials in prison. She also went up against Joseph Lee the utility company president accused of giving special treatment to friends and elected officials. In, October of 2007 Rebecca joined our team of journalists. She calls herself, “The Ultimate Florida Girl.” When she isn’t chasing a story she’s chasing one of her nephews, and spends all her time with her very large Puerto Rican family, and her dog Lola Bella.
On wanting to be a soap star: "I LOVE soap operas! I've been watching All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital since I was a baby so if I wasn't a news reporter I would have gone to New York to become a soap star!"
