Ted Bridis
Lecturer | University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, UNITED STATES
Ted Bridis is a veteran investigative journalist who teaches students all aspects of investigative journalism.
Biography
Before joining UF in 2018, Ted 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. He was the first journalist to discover and trace Hillary Clinton’s private email server to her home’s basement in Chappaqua, New York.
Areas of Expertise (6)
Freedom of Information
Political Communication
First Amendment
Professional Responsibility & Legal Ethics
Investigative Journalism
Reporting
Media Appearances (3)
Ted Bridis and Clay Calvert Comment on How the Largest Utility Company in the U.S. Conducted Surveillance on a Jacksonville Journalist
UF College of Journalism and Communications online
2022-06-27
Ted Bridis, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Rob Hiaasen Lecturer in Investigative Reporting, and Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project and Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, are quoted in “A Florida Power Company Didn’t Like a Journalist’s Commentary. Its Consultants Had Him Followed” published in The Guardian on June 24.
Ted Bridis Comments on the Importance of Investigative Journalism in the Current Media Environment
UF College of Journalism and Communications online
2021-01-28
Ted Bridis, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Rob Hiaasen Lecturer in Investigative Reporting, was featured in “The Importance of Investigative Journalism in Our Current Environment” during an episode of “Gulf Coast Life” broadcast on Naples, Florida public radio station WGCU-FM on Jan. 27. The episode focused on the rise of misinformation and disinformation and the importance of fact-based investigative journalism in today’s media landscape.
Ted Bridis Comments on the Current State of the Press and Public Perception
UF College of Journalism and Communications online
2019-04-18
Ted Bridis, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Rob Hiaasen Lecturer in Investigative Reporting, was quoted in “Glasser: What the President Gets Wrong About the Press” published in The Daily Caller on April 16. Charles J. Glasser, Jr., NYU professor of Media Ethics, asks Bridis to comment on the overly broad definition of “the press” that discounts the critical role that the Fourth Estate plays in an open and vibrant democracy.
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