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.
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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The Congressional committee investigating the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is scheduled to arrive in Palm Beach next week. -
Commissioners in Boynton Beach voted unanimously, 5-0, to approve revisions to the city code to prevent the private resale of plots at two historic public cemeteries. -
Music, upscale Caribbean food, and a drone show. An annual beachside festival at the Historic Virginia Key Beach Park continues to grow in popularity within South Florida’s Caribbean community. -
Pahokee to fix building code enforcement issues after 40 residents, including families and children, were recently forced from a condemned Pahokee apartment building. -
Scrapped data center in Okeechobee County mirrors rising opposition to data centers in South FloridaPlans for a 200-acre data center in Okeechobee County, about 60 miles west of West Palm Beach, have been scrapped amid widespread opposition against such projects. -
Amid uproar over iconic restaurant, West Palm Beach Keith James officially announced redevelopment plans for a “people-first” waterfront. -
A longtime waterfront restaurant in West Palm Beach says it has spent several months under pressure to give up its property for a proposed park near Flagler Drive. -
A free augmented reality app is giving residents and visitors an immersive way to tour downtown West Palm Beach. -
‘Hijo de la masa’ inaugural Mesoamerican food festival in West Palm Beach brings taste buds togetherWest Palm Beach residents and visitors are getting ready for a one-night chef tasting experience at the inaugural Hijo de la Masa or sons of corn. -
Love, loss and borders collide in Melodrama — the Dominican and Haitian drama-romance making its U.S. premiere at the 43rd Miami Film Festival. -
Loxahatchee Groves, located in the western part of Palm Beach County, is facing a shakeup after its Town Council voted to oust its town manager -
Palm Beach County’s upcoming zoning hearing for Project Tango, the controversial data center project, won’t be happening this month after all.
