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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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. -
The Department of Housing and Urban Development disproportionately sells homes in flood-prone areas — including Florida, NPR finds. Housing experts warn that this can lead to big losses for vulnerable families.
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The U.S. military has assisted Haiti rescue efforts in the past. After another major earthquake, Doral-based U.S. Southern Command is sending them in again.
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The vacancy left behind by the death of U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings will be one of the longest in modern American history. Now, the ripple effects are coming to light in the race to fill his seat.
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Members of an obscure Miami-Dade County board are pushing to work through the backlog in the wake of the Surfside condo collapse.
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After the Champlain Towers South building collapsed last Thursday, people across Miami-Dade County and the rest of South Florida have been worried about the safety of their own condo buildings.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology was given the authority to investigate building collapses after the attacks of 9/11. Now, six researchers are in Surfside gathering information about Thursday's partial building collapse.
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Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and several other agencies responded to the scene in Surfside, off Collins Avenue just north of Miami Beach, and worked to rescue people following the collapse at the Champlain Towers condo building.
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Some streets were closed to allow more outdoor seating for bars and restaurants during COVID-19. As emergency orders are set to end, many want the closures to remain permanent.
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A well-funded, and mostly misunderstood, 2018 ballot amendment could roll back public oversight of the police for the foreseeable future. How did we get here?
