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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Miami-Dade County has struck an almost million-dollar marketing deal with Rockstar Games — the company behind the next Grand Theft Auto video game. Many commissioners said they were not aware of the agreement before the budget meeting. -
Miami-Dade now has an independent elected sheriff who can appeal to the state over budget needs — and essentially force county cuts of other services. At an intense overnight budget hearing, Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz did not get all her demands and would not rule out going to Tallahassee to get more money. -
New documentary 'First They Came For My College' offers a view from inside the school as the state government pressed to transform an institution beloved for its eccentricity and LGBTQ+ openness into a masculine, explicitly conservative place. -
The Savoy Hotel — a low-rise Art Deco building that’s stood on iconic Ocean Drive since the 1930s — is under threat of demolition to make way for a 38-story condo tower. Residents are up in arms, but the city can’t do anything to stop it thanks to "irresponsible" preemption laws passed in Tallahassee, proposed by a state senator from Hialeah. “It's the fulfillment of the prophecy," said one commissioner. -
Much of the hijackers’ lives in South Florida was revealed shortly after the terror attacks. As years went on, journalist Dan Christensen stayed on the case, unearthing evidence and leads that had been left out of the official 9/11 Commission Report. He tells WLRN there is still much to learn. -
Congresswoman Salazar says she will give money raised by communist agent to pro-Cuban freedom groupsThe congresswoman said she would not return money to a communist agent. -
Miami-Dade County held its first public budget hearing Thursday, facing major recurring shortfalls that could mean cuts to services and increased fees. -
Using a controversial rule adopted during the wave of pro-Palestinian campus protests in 2024, FIU disciplined students taking part in a silent, three-minute T-shirt protest against FIU's ICE partnership - even though its own staff confirmed the demonstration caused no disruption. In the free speech lawsuit that followed, a federal judge sided with the students. FIU now says it's weighing its next legal move. -
Seven FIU students scored a major free speech victory over their university, days before the start of the Fall Semester. -
The school's move to enforce a ban on "expressive activities" indoors move has drawn condemnation from free speech organizations, arguing the policy violates protected free speech activity.
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In the first year of Amendment 3 being in effect, fire and ambulance services in the Lower Keys would have an estimated shortfall of $430,287. The following year it would rise to $606,572, according to a presentation given by the country's budget director. -
Byron Donalds, a Republican congressman, easily defeated his GOP challengers to win the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Former Congressman David Jolly won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. They face each other in November.
