Personnel note: CNN’s Carlos Suarez named Miami-Dade Mayor’s Comms Director in media team shake

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has appointed longtime broadcast journalist Carlos Suarez as her new Communications Director.

The move is part of a broader reshuffling of the administration’s media team that includes elevating current Communications Director Natalia Jaramillo to a countywide role and keeping outgoing Deputy Chief of Staff Rachel Johnson on in an advisory capacity.

Suarez, a Miami native who has reported and anchored for major outlets in South Florida and served as CNN’s Miami-based correspondent , is set to lead the Mayor’s communications shop.

His prior news coverage has included some of the region’s most consequential events, including the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, the local response to COVID , Hurricane Irma an