Áine Pennello
WUFT Morning Edition News AnchorÁine Pennello is a multimedia reporter and Morning Edition news anchor for the College’s Innovation News Center. She has a background in video news and documentary and most recently worked at WCBS Newsradio in New York City covering local news and the tri-state area. She has also reported internationally, freelancing from Paris and Berlin during the Syrian refugee crisis. During the Syrian Civil War, Pennello reported from the Golan Heights while on a reporting grant from the International Center for Journalists.
She has produced and reported for a variety of media companies, including The New York Times, Soledad O’Brien Productions, NBC News, ABC News Studios, Hulu, VICE, HBO Films and Netflix.
In 2016, she was nominated for GLAAD Media’s award for Outstanding Digital Journalism and this year was nominated for a Sundance Premier and Emmy award as part of the crew that produced the documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.”
Pennello has also been an adjunct professor at Fordham University and the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY. She is also a board member of the Society for Professional Journalism’s NYC chapter.
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Rayvon Rollins is a poet in Gainesville and he’s getting ready for a poetry slam about cancer. -
Emmanuel Espinoza, 21, drove from Gainesville to his mother's house in Frostproof in Polk County on for a family event. -
In honor of Women’s History Month, WUFT-FM spoke with three students at Pace Center for Girls Alachua to get their thoughts on what it’s like growing up as young women in North Central Florida. -
In honor of Women’s History Month, WUFT spoke with historian Dr. Peggy Macdonald about Gainesville’s surprising and forgotten history as one of the major birth spots of the women’s rights movement. -
That comes after months of pushback and a lawsuit from Gainesville residents questioning the governor’s ability to appoint board members who don’t live within the city. -
On March 1, UF sent out a memo announcing it was closing the office of the Chief Diversity Officer, eliminating 13 DEI positions and 15 administrative appointments. -
Rob Harris drives the bus up and down the entire state of Florida giving out information on Alzheimer’s and dementia to people looking for help. -
It comes after three residents challenged 12 books last fall — the highest number of challenges Alachua County ever received. -
The Alachua County Library District has voted to permanently dissolve a committee designed to look into workplace and LGBTQ concerns. The committee was formed in August of last year in response to anonymous employee complaints, the committee was suspended on December 14th a few days before it was scheduled to have its first meeting.
