The Miami Herald today puts a story about former UF president Ben Sasse's spending written by a student journalist from UF on its front page. Not a rewrite by a staffer, but the work the Alligator first published. Excellent recognition of powerful student journalism: - ThreadSky

dwillis.bsky.social • 200 days ago

The Miami Herald today puts a story about former UF president Ben Sasse's spending written by a student journalist from UF on its front page. Not a rewrite by a staffer, but the work the Alligator first published. Excellent recognition of powerful student journalism:

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amptsuper.bsky.social•200 days ago

And here it is...Kudos to #MiamiHerald. This is how you grow and encourage young journalists.
https://www.alligator.org/article/2024/08/sasse-s-spending-spree-former-uf-president-channeled-millions-to-gop-allies-secretive-contracts

adamkingxv.bsky.social•200 days ago

After decades of "Florida Man" I truly hope Florida journalism's well-earned day in the sun is coming.

gtmac.bsky.social•199 days ago

Wait.... Bens Asse left a senate seat to last as UF president for like a year?

kaiserbrown.bsky.social•200 days ago

NYTimes gonna do a whole series of articles that's solely re-reporting what the Alligator already did and act like they're the first paper to discover any of this.

Wait, we're talking about a state school? In the south? Nevermind, they're not going to deign to cover it at all.

ahaberlach.bsky.social•200 days ago

Harris should do a sit down with the student before the NYT.

chawls.bsky.social•200 days ago

This is fantastic. The press needs to restore journalistic credibility as the political watchdog for the public, not lapdog for the MAGA.

replyguyincognito.bsky.social•200 days ago

Alligators can publish articles? What brilliant reptiles they are

howdoesyourgarden.bsky.social•199 days ago

Miami Herald is where Julie Brown broke the Epstein story.

roveinbetween.bsky.social•200 days ago

As they should! 👏🏼

estherp.bsky.social•200 days ago

Nice to see a student getting credit but also a sad commentary on the state of daily journalism that the Miami Herald didn't have a staffer follow up on the story or break it in the first place.

dgmcdowell.bsky.social•200 days ago

Or perhaps the student's beat is continuing and Miami is kind of far from Gainesville.

estherp.bsky.social•200 days ago

Maybe, but this isn't really a Gainesville story. It's mainly a public record story that you could do from anywhere.

root2702.bsky.social•200 days ago

This may be helpful information, or it could be what scientists call confounding data:
The Alligator shares an off-campus office building with the Gainesville Sun (Gannett/USAtoday) and a NY Times bureau.

scottzona.bsky.social•198 days ago

The MH fired most of its staff years ago. They fill their pages with mostly wire service stories.

estherp.bsky.social•198 days ago

Thanks, I figured it was something like that.

grammarpurist.bsky.social•200 days ago

The only question I have is did they compensate the student?

danielsand.bsky.social•200 days ago

Well now we know why he suddenly quit.

Hopefully criminal charges follow.

michaelspins.bsky.social•200 days ago

Sasse's tenure went about as I'd expected- totally incompetent and corrupt

kalilchernov.bsky.social•200 days ago

Good positioning, too; quite a contrast. "Artists struggling to find a place to work" next to "republican asshat steals millions from the government for himself and his rich friends".

beefreeferlives.bsky.social•200 days ago

"We Shouldn't Be Suffering"

Rhonda Santis: "Yes, you should & I'm going to make sure you do."

maximummary.bsky.social•200 days ago

I was in a journalism summer school class in college. Writer from the Boston Globe came in and said we could send him our work. One of us did and got his first byline at 15. Didn’t write down his name, wish I had.

anti-you.bsky.social•200 days ago

I was a student journalist/music writer for a college paper and Jim Sullivan of the Globe ripped off a lot of my story for a concert review for a show that happened in Boston a night later, like word choice and everything, and I was more psyched than anything. Like I knew I could write.

dadinfluence.bsky.social•200 days ago

Seems like Kamala needs to be talking to student press then, let the MSM stay mad

processanalyzer.bsky.social•198 days ago

Thank God! Gov DeSantis was going to expel those student reporters and still might. He could have them arrested too!

klutzcargo.bsky.social•199 days ago

Here’s to the Alligator. This is a bonkers, but unfortunately not particularly surprising story.

epicciuto.bsky.social•199 days ago

It was also more clearly written than most of the stuff I read in legacy outlets. So impressive!

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