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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The number of inmates in Miami-Dade County jails who have tested positive for COVID-19 has exploded in recent days. -
A shipment of one million N95 masks to Miami-Dade County firefighters was confiscated by the federal government last week, say top Miami-Dade officials.... -
Updated Friday, April 10 at 11 a.m. At least 16 people have been jailed in Miami-Dade County the past few weeks over coronavirus-related curfew... -
County and municipal marinas are closed, popular sandbars are empty for the first time in recorded history, and there are no cruise ships packed with... -
Two inmates in Broward County have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. The two cases mark the first time inmates in... -
Both the government-run drive-thru testing sites for COVID-19 in Miami-Dade County have specific restrictions as to who can get tested. Those include... -
Up until now the only way for most people to get tested for COVID-19 is if you show clear symptoms and have a referral from a medical professional.... -
The largest drive-through testing site for the novel coronavirus in Miami-Dade County is located at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. The site was...
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Employees at the Florida Department of Health, the state agency that is managing the response to COVID-19, are not being allowed to work from home, even...
