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Ted Bridis
Michael and Linda Connelly Senior Lecturer in Investigative Reporting - Department of Journalism
Bio
Before joining UF in 2018, Bridis was editor of the Associated Press’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington investigative team and was AP’s leading newsroom expert on security practices for source-protection and on the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and related laws.
His investigative team won the 2012 Pulitzer and Goldsmith prizes for investigative reporting on NYPD intelligence programs, and he led AP’s efforts that won the $10,000 Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Awards in 2011 and 2014. He won the 2014 Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics and the 2014 Society of Professional Journalism Ethics in Journalism Award. His team’s coverage of hurricane flooding at toxic waste sites was a finalist for the 2017 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in the category of investigations triggered by breaking news.
Among his other journalistic achievements:
- He was the first journalist to discover and trace Hillary Clinton’s private email server to her home’s basement in Chappaqua, New York.
- His investigative team was first to reveal in August 2016 Paul Manafort’s and Rick Gates’ covert foreign lobbying activities.
- He had been one of AP’s seven analysts since 2004 responsible for projecting winners in national elections (his call in 2016 allowed AP to be the first new organization to project Donald Trump winning the presidency).
Bridis previously covered technology, hackers, national security and the Justice Department for the AP in Washington, where he worked for 20 years .
Areas of Expertise
Ethics/Professional Responsibility, First Amendment, Investigative Journalism, Political Communication, ReportingEducation
B.S., University of Missouri
News
- Fresh Take Florida Featured in Poynter.com Profile (July 16, 2024)
- UFCJC Alum Receives Prestigious Sharyl Attkisson Investigative and Original News Prize (June 3, 2024)
- WUFT Receives Three 2024 Region 13 RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards (May 30, 2024)
- Two UFCJC Alumni Finish in the Top 20 in Hearst Journalism Awards Investigative Reporting Competition (May 20, 2024)
- Ted Bridis Comments on the Repercussions of Not Fact-Checking Data (May 7, 2024)
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