Denise Okafor — Jobs & Local Economy Reporter

Orlando Citizen — Jobs & Local Economy Beat

Denise Okafor

Jobs and local economy reporter. Denise covers how Central Florida earns: the major employers hiring and cutting, the tourism workforce, and the official numbers behind the headlines.

Her beat runs on primary sources: Florida WARN Act notices (the state’s official layoff filings), employer and agency releases, CareerSource Central Florida, and state and federal labour data. A WARN notice is reported as a filing — planned layoffs with dates and counts as filed — never inflated into a closure the filing does not say.

What she covers: WARN notices and major layoffs, big hiring announcements verified against the employer’s own release, tourism and hospitality employment, wage and unemployment data for the Orlando metro, and the local companies residents actually work for.

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Denise Okafor is a staff reporter of the Orlando Citizen newsroom.