Gerard Albert
Gerard Albert III is a senior journalism major at Florida International University, who flip-flopped around creative interests until being pulled away by the rush of reporting.
He enjoys balancing the discipline and conviction in journalism with finding creative ways to find the truth and report it.
Gerard serves as the Editor-in-Chief for PantherNow, FIU’s student newspaper, where he has reported on student government and student finances.
Gerard carries his camera everywhere he goes and has photographed protests, sports games and everything in between.
His interest in journalism started after watching Vice documentaries, reading books by Hunter S. Thompson and seeing the photographs in Time magazine and National Geographic.
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Broward Public Defender Gordon Weekes continues his push for federal help for providing services for scores of mentally ill inmates in Broward jails. The sheriff's office says it isn't needed. -
Licata said he would step down for health reasons. The news came at the start of a school district meeting with an agenda packed with some of the topics that have made this period one of the most challenging the district has faced in recent years. -
Dubbed the Natural Disaster Reinsurance Plan, bill in the U.S. House aims to lower insurance costs for customers in states that opt-in to the program by scaling back the need for insurance companies to purchase reinsurance. -
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who conceived two of her children through IVF, is pushing for the treatment to be protected in federal law over fears that a contentious ruling in Alabama could bring 'chaos' and 'uncertainty' across the country. -
The rundown state of the historic Black cemetery is at the center of a legal battle over who is in charge of its operation, upkeep and land. -
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) called for Florida's surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a Gov. DeSantis ally, to resign or be terminated over his refusal to declare a public health emergency over the Broward County outbreak. -
The City of Parkland hosted its annual commemoration of the 17 lives lost in the 2018 tragedy, just as another mass shooting took place at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl parade. “They were children with bright futures ahead of them,” said one parent. -
Over the past five years, 21 people have died while in custody of the Broward Sheriff's Office. Now groups are pushing for federal investigations. -
Since 2021, 21 people have died in Broward County jails. Now organizations are calling for outside oversight. -
Steve Glassman proposed taking almost $640,000 out of the city's budget for homeless services next year after the city lost a long-running lawsuit over a ban on the feeding of homeless people in public parks.
