Daniel Rivero
Daniel Rivero is a reporter and producer for WLRN, covering Latino and criminal justice issues. Before joining the team, he was an investigative reporter and producer on the television series "The Naked Truth," and a digital reporter for Fusion.
His work has won honors of the Murrow Awards, Sunshine State Awards and Green Eyeshade Awards. He has also been nominated for a Livingston Award and a GLAAD Award on reporting on the background of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma and on the Orlando nightclub shooting, respectively.
Daniel was born on the outskirts of Washington D.C. to Cuban parents, and moved to Miami full time twenty years ago. He learned to walk with a wiffle ball bat and has been a skateboarder since the age of ten.
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"Doing this is not a matter of politics. This is human lives," says Niubis Robaina. -
Florida wants to keep the names of police involved in use-of-force cases hidden, saying they are victims of a crime who deserve privacy protections under state law. Advocates want a court to decide.
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The Hialeah location on West 49th Street follows in the footsteps of a successful unionization effort in Buffalo, New York.
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Florida lawmakers will soon meet for first time in a post-Surfside world. Will they change any laws?Will Florida lawmakers implement any condo law reforms in the wake of the Surfside condo collapse? Here are some of the ideas being recommended.
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Deferred maintenance and deferred repair work in the Champlain Towers South building are well documented. Now, disclosures will have to be made.
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After weeks of asking, neither the Florida Department of State nor the Florida Department of Corrections was able to deny or confirm if Republican congressional candidate Jason Mariner cast a legal ballot or not.
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Only five votes currently separate the candidates for the Democratic primary for Florida's 20th congressional district, with more still to be counted. Even election attorneys don't agree about what happens in the case of a tie.
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Desmond Meade was recently named as a MacArthur Foundation fellow for 2021 — commonly known as a “genius" grant. He discusses honor and his activism in passing Amendment 4 in 2018.
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It's a story of unintended consequences, or perhaps, the story of political backlash that should be expected when the state passes laws that overly restrict local governments from making their own decisions.
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An NPR investigation found that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sells a disproportionately high number of properties in flood zones, including more than 230 in South Florida.
