NPR Expands Coverage of Latin America and Caribbean
| RADIO ONLINE | Monday, May 13, 2013 |
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NPR News and member station WLRN in Miami have announced a joint effort to expand coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean with the opening of an NPR bureau in Brazil and the creation of a WLRN Americas correspondent based in Miami. In addition, WLRN has expanded its existing partnership with The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald to include coordinated coverage of the region. The moves, combined with NPR's Mexico City bureau, mark a commitment by NPR and WLRN to deepen their news reporting from this increasingly important part of the world. With the expansion, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro takes on a new role as NPR's South America correspondent based in São Paulo; Tim Padgett, former Latin America bureau chief for TIME magazine, joins WLRN.
The NPR and WLRN collaboration allows the organizations to bring audiences more stories of both regional and national interest. The WLRN-Miami Herald partnership will include seven reporters and three editors dedicated to coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the largest news teams currently covering the region.
"We're thrilled to be back in South America. Brazil's growing global significance makes that country the perfect base for us," said NPR Senior Vice President of News Margaret Low Smith. "With that country's rich culture, environmental wealth, vast agricultural output and massive oil reserves, there will be no shortage of important and fascinating stories to tell."
