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 Hialeah location on West 49th Street follows in the footsteps of a successful unionization effort in Buffalo, New York. -
Two years ago, the vast majority of what the Miami-Dade Public Library System did was in person. Not any more. -
Over the last year, rental rates in South Florida have exploded faster than anywhere else in the nation. Now, the affordable housing crisis is squeezing families like never before. -
Florida lawmakers will soon meet for first time in a post-Surfside world. Will they change any laws?Will Florida lawmakers implement any condo law reforms in the wake of the Surfside condo collapse? Here are some of the reform ideas being recommended. -
Deferred maintenance and deferred repair work in the Champlain Towers South building are well documented. Now, disclosures will have to be made. -
Hundreds of elderly residents could soon be pushed out of an affordable housing building in Miami's Brickell neighborhood. Many will be relocated to another development, but not all are happy. -
This summer, Miami joined cities across the state in pledging to lower its greenhouse gas emissions in order to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, which could swamp Florida’s coasts with a few feet of sea rise by mid-century. But Miami’s plan, like others across the state, was weakened by a set of new state laws that block municipalities from regulating fossil fuels in their own communities. -
With Florida on the frontlines of sea level rise and the impacts of climate change, a lot of local governments are stepping up and trying to reduce carbon emissions on their own. But what happens when the state government has other ideas? -
Starting in 2024, Miami-Dade County will be forced — thanks to a statewide ballot initiative — to elect a county sheriff. But what that new sheriff's office looks like is up for debate. -
After weeks of asking, neither the Florida Department of State nor the Florida Department of Corrections was able to deny or confirm if Republican congressional candidate Jason Mariner cast a legal ballot or not. -
Organizers hope it will usher in a new chapter of indigenous art in South Florida, and also encourage more young tribal artists to participate in the broader art scene. -
A study has found that the tree canopy cover for Miami-Dade County has “not significantly changed” after five years of aggressive planting.
