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Overview
Denzen Cortez is a reporter at KCRA-TV, the NBC station in Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto. He has been at KCRA-TV since August 2025.
Cortez’s honors include top-three finishes at the 2024 and 2025 Hearst Journalism National Awards, first place for Best Student Television Reporter at the 2025 BEA awards, and a regional SPJ Mark of Excellence Award. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication from Arizona State University. Cortez grew up in Sacramento.
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Denzen Cortez at a glance
- Role
- reporter
- Station
- KCRA-TV (NBC)
- At the station since
- August 2025
- TV market
- Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, CA
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