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 5-2 vote followed a day’s worth of presentations by county staff and GL Homes, and passionate remarks from proponents and critics, many of whom argued more development could have costly environmental impacts on the region. -
Alongside The Chainsmokers and Jack Johnson, the West Palm Beach festival will feature rising homegrown talent like singer Allegra Miles and pop group East Harbor. -
The Palm Beach County Commission is expected on Wednesday to take up a controversial luxury development proposal from GL Homes that has drawn intense criticism from many environmental experts and residents. -
Residents are cleaning up the damage and debris left behind by a tornado that passed through several communities in the northern part of Palm Beach County over the weekend. The powerful storm system overturned cars and boats, damaged homes and uprooted large trees. -
Florida is second in the nation in school book censorship. The director of a library in Palm Beach County is concerned that public libraries could start facing the same challenges. -
Homeowners in Briny Breezes, a small ocean-front mobile home community in Palm Beach County that sits on the Intracoastal Waterway, are said to be looking for a deal closer to $1 billion. -
Tri-Rail undergoes its first train design in more than 20 years as commuter ridership increases by 25%. -
Democratic lawmakers in Florida who thought they could get an anti slavery law through the legislature halted their efforts after Gov. Ron DeSantis ramped up the culture wars.
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Supporters and critics of former President Trump gathered outside his Florida home at Mar-a-lago after hearing news that he was indicted on 34 counts related to business fraud.
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UPDATED AT 6 P.M. Despite Donald Trump's historic indictment, and the former president's pleas for public support, a mass gathering outside his Palm Beach home has so far failed to materialize. As the story develops, WLRN's Wilkine Brutus reports from the scene. -
The Midnight Sun Festival in Lake Worth Beach honors Finnish ethnic heritage and immigrant history. But the once sizable immigrant community is declining in size. -
Bea Hines' dream of becoming a writer wasn't encouraged by her friends and family when she was growing up. But she tells WLRN's Wilkine Brutus how she proved everyone wrong when she was the first Black female journalist hired at the Miami Herald.
