Rebeca Piccardo graduated from Florida International University in May with bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in international relations.
Piccardo works an intern with the Miami Herald, covering two municipalities, writing features and covering breaking news shifts. Her work has landed on the main displays of the local, business and lifestyle sections. In her time there, she has also taken up reporting in Spanish and translating her stories for the Spanish-language sister newspaper, El Nuevo Herald.
Before working at the Herald, Piccardo was a breaking news intern for the Sun Sentinel. She mostly covered crime stories, including shootings, car accidents, a murder and a school stabbing.
Piccardo started out as a contributing writer for the school newspaper, The Beacon. Within two years, she rose to become news director, managing all the news content for the newspaper, website and morning news show on WRGP FIU Student Radio.
Piccardo also worked in the school of journalism’s academic newsroom class, the South Florida News Service. She pitched stories and published in both the Miami Herald and the Palm Beach Post. Her last project about gender-neutral bathrooms made the front-page of the Miami Herald in December.
Piccardo is originally from Caracas, Venezuela, and lived in the United Kingdom, Chile and Brazil before moving permanently to the U.S.
