WLRN News took home 14 wins and four finalist honors in the statewide Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists awards for journalism produced in 2022.
An award-winning South Florida journalist with more than three decades of experience as a reporter, editor and news manager will join WLRN News early next year as its new Vice President for News.
Fifty years ago, Haitian refugees fleeing a brutal dictatorship started to land on the shores of Florida. These arrival by boats, and later those from Cuba, sparked a wholesale change of how the immigration system works in the U.S. the beginning of the modern era of mass immigration detention. The effects are still felt today, as record numbers seek the Land of the Free and end up in detention.