Ted Bridis
@tbridis
I teach investigative reporting at University of Florida. Formerly AP's editor of Pulitzer-winning investigative team, Wall Street Journal alum. Mizzou grad.
I was Twitter-verified as a US journalist back when it actually seemed to indicate something on this hellscape
Rep. Kat Cammack taking victory lap over funding clawbacks to public media, including WUFT news station at University of Florida that trains next generation of journalists, provides award-winning hurricane coverage in her own congressional district
🇺🇸It’s nearly 1am here on Capitol Hill and we’ve just wrapped up a busy day of saving taxpayer dollars, funding our military and creating a historic framework for crypto while stopping the creation of a central bank for digital currency. Baby Peanut who is due in just a few…
That time when @washingtonpost asked AI platforms including @grok to fact-check President Trump (it didn't go well for him) washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…
RIP to AP’s former chief Washington photographer, Bob Daugherty, who captured this iconic photo of Nixon among many other historic images during his 43-year career
Scoop: A WSJ reporter was slated to be part of the travel pool this weekend when Trump travels to Scotland. After the paper's Epstein story last week, the WH booted them from the pool. w/ @iriesentner politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
Trump lawsuit against Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward dismissed washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
It is highly uncertain whether US court will permit what Trump is asking his attorney general to seek to release; courts have regularly rejected such 6(e) requests in other cases congress.gov/crs_external_p…
Same @WSJ reporter @joe_palazzolo on today’s Epstein-Trump exclusive previously broke stories about hush money payments on behalf of Trump over sexual affairs with Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal wsj.com/politics/trump…
This is literally what is in the Miami Herald article, that he was there 3 days and he had lied about his age.
All the @MiamiHerald does is lie about Alligator Alcatraz. The individual's age is not verifiable. He said he lied about it. And when he admitted to that, he was immediately moved. As we noted in our statement that was intentionally left out by this reporter, this is one of…
My former @AP colleague @RayLong just retired from @chicagotribune after a 27-year career, offers this advice for next generation of journalists
Cuts to funding for public media means fewer journalists covering communities, including before, during, after natural disasters like hurricanes, floods wfyi.org/news/articles/…
It's disappointing it took a judge to issue such an order in United States: 'Judge Orders Los Angeles Police to Stop Shooting Projectiles at Journalists' nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/…
University of Oregon's journalism dean resigns from $332,766 job amid scrutiny of excessive travel expenses, violations of school's travel policies. Will go on leave for research in fall 2025 and winter 2026 then return to teaching. dailyemerald.com/168299/news/ju…
College reporters – citing educator's Instagram posts – uncover excessive travel spending by University of Oregon journalism dean amid school's budget crisis dailyemerald.com/166936/feature…
Shameful statement from official US government account: Texas officials including governor have blamed what they described as inadequate warnings, forecasts of less rain than actually fell. Responsible reporting isn’t ‘deliberately lying,’ it’s investigating gov’t accountability
The mainstream media is deliberately lying about the events leading up to the catastrophic flooding in Texas. The National Weather Service executed timely, precise forecasting and warnings, despite unprecedented rainfall overwhelming the region. Here is the timeline of NWS’s…
Especially reporting on such emotional issues as missing children when parents are still hopeful, vital to practice journalism’s most important rule: ‘Get it first, but first get it right’ kerrcountylead.com/the-miraculous…
They don’t like off-message accountability journalism: Fox reporter @JenGriffinFNC asks reasonable question at Pentagon press conference about fate of Iranian uranium, @SecDef response is, ‘Jennifer, you’ve been about the worst.’ apnews.com/article/fox-ne…
It’s getting more expensive for out-of-state students - who pay nearly $30,000 per year in tuition alone - to attend Florida’s flagship public university. About 11% of UF students are from outside Florida.
