Wilkine Brutus
Palm Beach County Bureau ReporterWilkine Brutus is an award-winning, Haitian-American journalist for WLRN, South Florida's NPR station. The Palm Beach County correspondent produces in-depth local and national stories on topics surrounding current affairs, government accountability, arts and culture — for radio, podcast and web.
Brutus was named 2023 Reporter of the Year by the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists. And he earned a 2023 regional Murrow Award for his investigative reporting.
Before joining WLRN, Brutus worked as Digital Reporter for the Palm Beach Post, producing print and video-based profiles of artists and entrepreneurs. Prior to that, he spent many years as a freelance journalist and English educator in South Korea, amassing millions of views on his YouTube channel.
He's the host of "A Boat A Voyage," a 5-episode podcast from his Maps & Diaries documentary platform. The podcast explores his Haitian mother’s account of her 1980s refugee experience in Miami. He's also the founder of Preserve Voices® Story Deck and its accompanying intergenerational workshop series, teaching people how to interview their parents and love ones.
Brutus and his colleagues are the recipients of the 2021 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence, the first time the station has won the award at the national level.
He earned his bachelor's degree in Multimedia Studies from Florida Atlantic University.
Contact Wilkine at wbrutus@wlrnnews.org
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At stake tonight was a four-year term as Florida’s chief legal officer, and voters were faced with a stark choice between State Attorney General James Uthmeier and his Democratic challenger, Jose Javier Rodriguez, a former state legislator and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor. -
'Bigger and bigger' Subtropic Film Fest bringing features, shorts to stages across Palm Beach CountyBeyond the tropes of swamps and headlines, the fourth annual Subtropic Film Festival is bringing local independent films to stages across Palm Beach County. -
![About two dozen immigrant rights advocates and faith leaders rallied outside of Senator Ashley Moody’s Palm Beach Gardens office today [Oct 27].](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/85777fa/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2246+0+389/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1e%2F70%2F9632a54740ec8bedfd81c107d6c3%2Ftps-protes-ashley-moody.jpg)
About two dozen immigrant rights advocates and faith leaders rallied outside of Senator Ashley Moody’s Palm Beach Gardens office today. They urged her to support a bill extending Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitians for three more years. -
Fresh off former President Barack Obama's endorsement, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Angie Nixon met with voters in Riviera Beach during a festive campaign stop, calling for universal health and free child care and a nationwide moratorium on AI data centers. -
A massive proposed AI data center in Palm Beach County is raising questions about environmental safety, government transparency, and whether the county’s zoning laws are keeping up with new technology. -
A new Palm Beach County audit reveals huge oversight gaps in a milti-million dollar renovation of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office headquarters in West Palm Beach -
Palm Beach County voters will decide whether to approve a $175 million dollar bond to help pay for a major expansion of the county library system. -
A Native American jazz vocalist has a lot to say ahead of her performance in West Palm Beach. She is reclaiming space in American music as the lead of a 16-piece Indigenous big band. -
The dispute between Wellington International’s former CEO and the employee who accused him of battery is officially over -
The movement for watching vertical movies and series is growing rapidly. A South Florida startup wants to disrupt global streaming by putting creators first. -
But amid TPS disruption, one group of Haitian leaders is turning toward sustainable nation-building as a way to offset the damage and forge long-term stability for their homeland. -
An ancient Japanese tradition collides with South Florida’s party scene, as a legendary icon brings live Sumo back to Miami
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