Dan Grech

Senior Editor for News at WLRN-Miami Herald News

Dan Grech — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:10:26 +0000

Station: WLRN

Company: South Florida Public Media/Friends of WLRN

Job Title: Senior Editor, News, WLRN-Miami Herald News

Senior Editor for Digital Media at WLRN-Miami Herald News

Dan Grech — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:06:04 +0000

Station: WLRN

Company: South Florida Public Media/Friends of WLRN

Job Title: Senior Editor, Digital Media, WLRN-Miami Herald News

My Mom Kissed Fidel

Dan Grech — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:04:39 +0000

This post goes in the “It’s a Small World” category.

Human Hair Is Farmers’ Friend

Dan Grech — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:27:12 +0000

That’s according to Blair Blacker, and he should know. In this story, host Dan Grech visits a warehouse in Florida City with Blacker to have a look at a novel product– mats made from human hair. Blacker says the mats fertilize plants better than most herbicides, plus they prevent weeds and conserve water. The circular mats, made by SmartGrow, fit snugly around a plant’s base and biodegrade over time.

Episode 4: Hispanic Versus Latino

Dan Grech and Jose Maya — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:01:57 +0000

Dan Grech gets a government form in the mail and he’s asked to decide: Is he Hispanic, or “a big white guy?” He’s pretty sure he’s not Latino.

To sort it all out, he invited demographer Maria Aysa to the studio.

In this piece, she explains the difference between the terms Hispanic and Latino, and why some people are so adamant about using one instead of the other.

Meet Poet Campbell McGrath

Dan Grech — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:45:29 +0000

When you see a book titled Florida Poems, you might imagine titles and verses about bright sunshine and sand-swept beaches, with a picturesque Key West sunset thrown in. You know, kind of like the poetry version of those generic landscape paintings that hang in every Florida seaside motel? (With the exception of paintings by the Florida Highwaymen, but that’s another story for another time.)

Venezuelan Team's Request For A Moment Of Silence For Hugo Chavez Turned Down

Dan Grech — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:31:27 +0000

Venezuela's national baseball team was warming up ahead of Tuesday evening's exhibition game against the Miami Marlins in Jupiter, Fla., when news arrived that President Hugo Chavez had died.

WLRN Seeks A Talented Education Reporter To Join Our StateImpact Florida Team

Dan Grech — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:28:34 +0000

Update, 12:41 p.m. March 21, 2013: This position has been filled.

Education Reporter/Blogger

StateImpact Florida

Are you a skilled, creative and ambitious multi-platform journalist with a passion for education issues? Join the team that won the 2012 best blog award from the Education Writers Association as well as the Online News Association’s Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism

Maltz Jupiter Theater Cements Place As Regional Powerhouse In Carbonell Award Nominations

Dan Grech — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:34:38 +0000

The Maltz Jupiter Theater nearly doubled its closest competitors Friday with 23 Carbonell Award nominations in a field thinned by the closure of three regional theaters.

Miami Beach Couple Desperate To Get Married Resorts To Reddit Over “Buzzkill” Florida Bureaucracy

Dan Grech — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:22:15 +0000

We spotted this touching (and slightly bizarre) plea on Reddit from "cosmicbrownies2," and couldn’t resist helping spread the word.

Can anyone PLEASE marry us this weekend!?

One Year After The Quake: “Las Twins”

Dan Grech — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:11:44 +0000

Carmen Maria Romero was one of the four medical workers in Haiti whose voices you heard in After the Quake: Patients and Healers. She’s a physical therapist who had already been volunteering in Haiti for ten years, and who traveled there last January to help with the relief efforts.

Romero was so moved by the suffering and the resilience of her patients that she decided to quit her job and relocate to Haiti.

Senior Editor for Enterprise at WLRN-Miami Herald News

Dan Grech — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:14:13 +0000

UPDATE on Sunday, July 1, 2012: This position has been filled.

Station: WLRN

Company: South Florida Public Media/Friends of WLRN

Not Your Average Science Conference

Dan Grech — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:32:21 +0000

WLRN’s Dan Grech crossed an item off his bucket list and reported the opening story of this week’s episode of Learning to Die in Miami is author Carlos Eire’s follow-up to his 2003 memoir, Waiting for Snow in Havana. In his first book, Eire wrote about his childhood in Cuba before and during the Castro revolution.

A Lesson In Civic Duty

Dan Grech — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:49:37 +0000

Getting a jury summons in the mail is not cause to rejoice for most people. It means missing a day or more of work and sitting for long periods of time waiting for your name to be called while watching bad movies in a large, cold room. If you do get chosen for a jury panel, however, you get to see the legal system in process.

Docs In Haiti

Dan Grech, Kenny Malone and Sammy Mack — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:23:30 +0000

After The Quake: Patients And Healers

Kenny Malone, Dan Grech and Sammy Mack and Dr. David Chan and Jose Iglesias — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:12:01 +0000

This piece reconstructs an inspiring moment amid tragedy and pain, at a makeshift hospital tent in Port-au-Prince.

Hurricane, I Mean Earthquake

Dan Grech and Sammy Mack — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:33:21 +0000

Have you heard anyone slip up and say “the hurricane in Haiti,” when they meant to say “the earthquake”? Hurricanes and earthquakes are both disasters, but could these words become interchangeable?

Dave Barry On South Florida And The “Zany Thriller” Novel

Dan Grech — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:57:00 +0000

Dave Barry brought Miami, in all of its glory, to the forefront of the country’s consciousness as a syndicated humor columnist for The Miami Herald. Listen (above) as Under the Sun co-host, Dan Grech, speaks with Barry about his first impressions of the city after arriving from Philadelphia. In a nutshell: “My God this is the weirdest place I’ve ever seen in my life…I’m not going to bring my family to this insane place.”