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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The fate of former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resource officer Scot Peterson is in the hands of a Broward County jury. -
Broward's new top leader has spent nearly three decades in neighboring Palm Beach County public schools, most recently as a regional superintendent. -
Broward prosecutors have their work cut out for them in the trial of the former Broward school resource officer who was on duty during the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a legal expert says. Opening arguments were delivered last week. -
Opening arguments began Wednesday as the jury starts hearing details about what happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. -
At a conference in Broward County, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt — President Biden's Special Envoy to combat antisemitism — called the rise in hatred against Jewish people "very frightening," singling out its "normalization" in the discourse of celebrities as a "major concern." -
The board met Tuesday to pick their top three candidate for superintendent. -
About 200 protestors gathered across from a downtown Miami hotel where fundraisers met with Gov. Ron DeSantis before he formally announced he was running for president. -
The historic flooding caused damage at a dozen schools, but the nine that suffered the worst were in Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood. -
Broward schools worked overtime to prepare flood-damaged schools for students to return. But many residents are counting on FEMA and the local government as they try to recover from the devastating damage. -
Fort Lauderdale's historic flooding left some homeowners stranded outside this week. We talk with one resident who has decided to move.
