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Weaver joined WLRN's South Florida Roundup host Tim Padgett on Friday to talk about his career and the latest layoffs at the Herald and El Nuevo Herald.

The McClatchy newspaper chain has made significant layoffs at The Miami Herald and other papers, cutting over 90 unionized journalists across 17 publications. This accounts for about 30 percent of McClatchy's unionized workforce.

Monday's night's also honored acclaimed Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown, who received this year’s Alberto Ibargüen Excellence in Journalism Award — a special distinction reserved for an outstanding journalist and leader.

The IRE award announcement comes only days after the Brightline stories were named as finalists for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.

The project is one of only 30 entries selected from a pool of over 100 high-stakes submissions evaluated for their impact on U.S. public policy and government accountability.

In an exclusive interview with WLRN, Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie Brown said millions of newly released documents related to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking case is a litmus test of the American justice system’s ability to protect its most vulnerable citizens.

WLRN investigative journalists Danny Rivero and Josh Ceballos were awarded “honorable mention” for their stories revealing that Miami city manager Art Noriega had awarded over $440,000 in city contracts to his wife’s furniture company — including furnishings for his own city government office — without transparency, proper disclosure or ethical oversight.

With a $3 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the foundations announced Monday the creation of Press Forward South Florida, “a new initiative to ensure residents have the information they need to make decisions about their lives — no matter where they live or what language they speak at home.”

The Mexican-born Chardy, who spoke and wrote in Spanish, English and French, awed his colleagues — and often the subjects of his stories — with his meticulous attention to fact and detail, voluminous note-taking and record-keeping, and a deep well of sources that spanned the world.

South Florida journalist Brittany Wallman, who won a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Parkland school shooting for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, is now working as an investigative journalist for the Miami Herald.

After 40 years and earning two Pulitzer Prizes with the newspaper, Nancy Ancrum is stepping down from her role as the editorial page editor at the Miami Herald.

In a world of knee-jerk reactions, Miami Herald columnist Fabiola Santiago provides the exception: the calm, considered opinion. She tells us about her journey to becoming a prominent voice in South Florida.