Caitie Muñoz
Director of Daily News & Original Live ProgrammingCaitie Muñoz, formerly Switalski, is the WLRN Newsroom's Director of Daily News & Original Live Programming. Prior to this leadership role, Caitie served as the newsroom's Interim Managing Editor.
In the past, she also produced WLRN's midday public affairs program, Sundial weekdays at 1 and 8 p.m. In her WLRN career before transitioning to production, Caitie covered news and stories concerning quality of life in Broward County and its municipalities for WLRN News for four years.
Her award-winning coverage focused on: affordable housing, city and county governments, homelessness issues, transportation and slice of life here in South Florida.
You will also hear Caitie fill in occasionally on our weekly shows and anchoring newscasts.
During her time as the Broward correspondent for WLRN her award-winning reporting was featured nationally on NPR newscasts, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Here & Now, 1A, The Takeaway, On Point, and Science Friday.
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 and was a former WLRN intern.
Caitie graduated from the University of Florida, with a B.S. in Journalism, a minor in English and is a proud Gator fan.
You can contact her at csmunoz@wlrnnews.org
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Applications are open for the foundation's 'Be Bold' $1 million grant. It aims to fund an idea that will get "as many people as possible" in the county back to work starting in the next two years. -
A group of fast food workers from across South Florida showed up in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday, as part of a multi-state effort to help raise awareness about the federal "Fight For $15" campaign. -
The city held a livestream of the commemoration on its social media pages for people who couldn't — or didn't feel comfortable — gathering in person this year due to the coronavirus. -
Living somewhere without a written contract on a month-to-month basis makes things harder because the CDC moratorium protects people from getting evicted only if they can't pay during the pandemic. And without calling it that, a landlord can choose not to renew you. -
For the senior class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the fear and isolation of the pandemic were layered on top of an already traumatic few years in school. The students graduating this year were freshmen when 17 people were killed and 17 others were injured during the 2018 shooting at their school. -
According to a new safety poll by Navigate360 and Zogby Strategies shows 56% of teens surveyed between the ages of 16 and 17 across the U.S. (broken down by region) said they personally knew someone who considered hurting themselves. -
Miramar native Jason Derulo spoke with WLRN's Caitie Switalski Muñoz about life at Dillard High School, creating new music during the pandemic and spreading social awareness on his social media. -
Miramar native Jason Derulo spoke with WLRN's Caitie Switalski Muñoz about life at Dillard High School, creating new music during the pandemic and spreading social awareness on his social media.
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With a large emphasis on parks, infrastructure, and moving ahead with plans during (and after) COVID-19 — Fort Lauderdale commissioners dreamed up what can get done in 2021. -
Jan. 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Volunteers are helping the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum host a February 'What You Do Matters' event to connect survivors to people in a virtual way during the pandemic. -
Broward County members of the nation's oldest Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., came out to especially celebrate their fellow sorority sister, Vice President Harris alongside President Biden. -
The union was backed by the American Federation of Teachers at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. The district fought back with its own press conference immediately after, dispelling the union's claims.
