She's being asked to fill some pretty big shoes — Thanh Tan's, and before that Elise Hu's — but Alana Rocha is up to the task. And when she starts her new job at the Trib as a multimedia reporter on October 22, she'll be a magnificent addition to our staff.

Alana comes to us from YNN Austin, the 24-hour news channel found on Time Warner cable systems, where she has reported on politics and the big policy issues of the day for nearly three years. In 2011 she became the lead political reporter for the network and ...

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