Daniel Rivero
Investigative ReporterDaniel Rivero is part of WLRN's new investigative reporting team. Before joining WLRN, 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.
He can be reached at drivero@wlrnnews.org
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The incident has opened a can of worms in federal court after a federal judge was notified that 47 of those detainees were shipped outside the Southern District of Florida in direct violation of court orders. -
Florida's 22nd Congressional District includes the "Project Tango" data center that has fostered months of advocacy in the community. A lawsuit has revealed that Michael Carbonara, who is vying for the Republican nomination for the district, is involved in a controversial bitcoin mine that was built next to a school in Michigan. -
Accrediting agencies have long fought to keep politics out of higher education, but a new Florida-created accreditor could open the political floodgates. -
Florida's 2022 Stop WOKE Act violates the first amendment, according to a federal appellate court. -
The move the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, adds pressure to Florida International University on what is becoming a major freedom of speech case. -
The tool was built using publicly available information. -
The students were given a written reprimand, and are being ordered to record videos about FIU policies they allegedly violated. They told WLRN they worry the videos could force them to express opinions they do not agree with.
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A decade after the PROMESA Act brought direct federal oversight to the U.S. territory during a fiscal crisis, debt has been slashed. But frustrations are high. -
"The problem is that this could be a day late and 500 pesos short." -
Danica Coto, the Caribbean correspondent for the Associated Press, spoke with WLRN about her recent reporting trips to Cuba about what she has seen — and felt. -
WLRN's Christine DiMattei, Daniel Rivero and Tom Hudson go over their memories of the event and its consequences, discussing the disaster and its lasting impact. -
Students stood in silent protest against the university's collaboration with ICE during a campus event. The school says because the protest was inside, it violated school conduct policies.
