Caitie Switalski Muñoz
ReporterCaitie Switalski Muñoz covers news and stories concerning quality of life in Broward County and its municipalities for WLRN News. Her award-winning coverage focuses on: affordable housing, city and county governments, homelessness issues, transportation and slice of life here in South Florida.
As the Broward Correspondent for WLRN her award-winning reporting has been featured nationally on NPR newscasts, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Here & Now, 1A, The Takeaway, On Point, and Science Friday. You will also hear Caitie fill in occasionally on our weekly shows and anchoring newscasts.
Before working in public media full-time, Caitie worked with the editors and reporters at WFSU-FM in Tallahassee, and anchored Morning Edition for WUFT-FM in Gainesville for three years. A former WLRN Intern, Caitie has been covering Broward County full-time here since October of 2017.
Caitie graduated from the University of Florida, with a B.S. in Journalism and is a proud Gator fan.
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The Gasper Arts Center opened during the pandemic — in the early part of 2021. Now the owner, Laura Gasper, hopes it will fill the need for more affordable artist studio space and office space for creatives. -
WLRN spoke with the Mayor of Tamarac about residents' reactions to the business giant expanding further into South Florida.
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Doctors and hospital leaders give an update on the rapid increase in COVID-positive patients at Memorial Healthcare System and Jackson Health. And a roundtable of regional reporters, on the ground over the last four weeks, help us understand where reporting on Surfside goes from here, one month after the tragic condo collapse.
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Doctors and hospital leaders give an update on the rapid increase in COVID-positive patients at Memorial Healthcare System and Jackson Health. And a roundtable of regional reporters, on the ground over the last four weeks, help us understand where reporting on Surfside goes from here, one month after the tragic condo collapse.
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Jack Rechcigl's vision for the future of the urban-environmental center is to make it a world-renowned place for visiting researchers to come focus their energy on issues ranging from grass to palm disease to everything in between.
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Nova Southeastern University held a community forum Tuesday to talk about voting rights and confusion around new laws emerging across the country — and in Florida — and what they could mean for elections in 2022.
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Project Opioid Broward is getting business leaders involved with the fight against opioid abuse and death in Broward County, much like the Broward Business Council On Homelessness formed in 2018.
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Leaders from cities and towns in Broward County, that contract with BSO for police and/or fire rescue services, complain that BSO has high costs, no transparency, and cities have no control over staffing etc. No one from the agency showed up to Wednesday's meeting.
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A year ago, WLRN and NPR member station KQED worked on a project to document decisions made at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in both Democratic-led California and Republican-led Florida. Now, a year later, we wanted to understand how the pandemic progressed in our respective regions.
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The Island SPACE Caribbean museum, the first of its kind, has been open since late last Fall — but this Sunday is the Museum's grand opening event, happening virtually and in person.
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Abe Friedman turned 100 years old on Monday. The City honored him with a special recognition for his activism as well as a birthday celebration at his senior living community, Park Summit.
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The Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations observed Juneteenth by listening to policy experts acknowledge there's more to do, now that the day is a federal holiday.
