Theodore Bridis

Rob Hiaasen Lecturer in Investigative Reporting and designated outstanding faculty member in the College of Journalism and Communications, UF

Ted Bridis is the Rob Hiaasen Lecturer in Investigative Reporting and designated outstanding faculty member in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. He teaches undergraduate courses in investigative & political reporting, and he is a founding editor for Fresh Take Florida, a news service operating at the university and covering state government in Tallahassee. He is also the administrator for the new $25,000 Collier Prize for State Government Accountability Reporting, which is presented at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner annually. For 11 years, until 2018, Bridis was editor of the Pulitzer-winning investigative team for The Associated Press in Washington: He managed AP’s reporting that was a Pulitzer finalist in 2019 for national reporting – and winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award – on treatment of immigrant children; his team won the 2012 Pulitzer for investigative reporting of unconstitutional surveillance of minority and Muslim neighborhoods by the NYPD; and he witnessed American Airlines Flight 77 crash into the Pentagon while working at the Wall Street Journal, which won the 2002 Pulitzer for breaking news coverage for coverage of the 9/11 attacks. He was first to identify and trace Hillary Clinton’s private email server to her home’s basement, and his team was first to reveal in Paul Manafort’s covert foreign lobbying activities, which caused President Trump to fire him as campaign chairman and led to his imprisonment.