At a time when local news outlets often announce layoffs, Tampa Bay community radio station WMNF 88.5-FM is growing its news team.
In a Tuesday email sent to programmers and staff, General Manager Rick Fernandes announced that Daniel Figueroa IV—a USF alum with a love of “Indiana Jones” and “Star Wars”—is joining the station as Senior News Reporter starting August 3.
Figueroa’s byline most recently appeared in the Tampa Bay Times where he was a digital producer up until mid-March when the Bay area’s vaunted daily laid off 11 more journalists.
The Senior News Reporter position at WMNF has been largely unfilled since it was vacated by Janelle Irwin in 2014. Figueroa joins a news team that already includes News and Public Affairs Director Rob Lorei and Assistant News & Public Affairs Director Sean Kinane.
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay has questions out to Figueroa, so we’ll update this post when answers come in.
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