Journalism

Florida’s new Halo Law, the controversial statute intended to protect law enforcement from harassment, went into effect at the start of this year. Now the first people arrested and prosecuted under it say they were left in the dark.At least eleven people so far have been arrested on charges of violating the new law, which bans people from being within 25 feet of a police officer, firefighter or paramedic at the scene of an incident, according to a statewide survey of the latest criminal violations by Fresh Take Florida, a news service of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.

WGCU reporters and videographers were awarded recently by the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists for entries dealing with the environment and sports.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in March 2024, we hear Sunny Lubner interview her very good friend Ella Nayor about her career in journalism, her life-long interest in Holocaust studies and her passion for anti-hate work.

Maribel Perez Wadsworth, former president of Gannett Media, publisher of USA Today and an editor at The News-Press in Fort Myers, has been appointed president and CEO of The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.The appointment was announced by the $2.6 billion Miami-based media organization on Tuesday.

We explore and discuss Player Circle Theater’s Florida debut of the Broadway comedy “The Lifespan of a Fact” with director Bob Cacioppo and actors Carrie Lund and Paul Graffy.

The Florida Center for Government Accountability helps fuel local, on-the-ground reporting by working to assist journalists and everyday citizens to gain access to public records. Executive Director Barbara Petersen joins us to talk about the crucial role investigative journalism plays in a robust democracy.

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to more accurately explain where the unionizing process stands. Journalists at local Gannett-owned newspapers…

We’re sitting down with two Southwest Florida journalists upon their return from the Bahamas where they spent several days learning how people in some of…

Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR, and a contributor to FOX News. Regular NPR listeners will often hear her stories and reports…

We're joined by Raney Aronson-Rath, she’s Executive Producer of Frontline, one of public television’s most critically acclaimed, and long-running shows…