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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

AR Points Champ -> AP Lang Enthusiast -> Journalist

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

9 months

Journalists blanking on a catchy headline for a feature:

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

8 months

Networking in journalism is literally just being funny online and you can’t convince me any differently

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

7 months

Being a journalist with some social difficulty is so embarrassing like why did I just cry on the phone with a pr person

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

8 months

Journalist hate email is a different breed. “This story is garbage!!! Your paper needs a new reporter!!! Quit your job NOW!!! -j.d. Get Outlook for IOS”

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

Day 1 @indystar ⭐️

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Alachua County Republicans office informed me and other outlets they won’t allow press at a Thursday fundraiser, where Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to deliver the keynote speech. I’ll still attend and report what I can. Catching details as they come. Keep it here @TheAlligator

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

@NPRinterns so true npr interns ❤️

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

8 months

Sources say @HeraldTribune is for the big dogs (and they just got another one). Traded the northeast for the southwest, where I’ll be tracking Satasota’s skyrocketing growth and development. Say hey at hbushman(at)gannett(dot)com.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

You expect me to find my PURPOSE in FLORIDA???

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

“Hey!!! Can I Venmo request you FTK??? I’m so close to my goal and-“ we haven’t spoken in five years

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Student journalism is running through the obstacle course of normal reporting, then having to scale a brick wall of people who don’t take you seriously. Despite all of it, we still find the stories. The news still breaks. Authority is still held accountable.

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@swalker_7

3 years

This is not ok. #Gators AD Scott Stricklin met behind closed doors with four select reporters for this interview… Conveniently, @TheAlligator was not invited. @zacharyahuber worked on this story for months yet he was locked out when Stricklin decides he wants to talk.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Heard @TheAlligator was looking for a DME. Unfortunately Dopest Managing Editor was not the position, but I guess Digital is cool too. Summer staff apps are OPEN! Come hang with me and my (equally dope) partners in crime @juliamcoin @ryan_dhaley

Join us this Summer: Staff applications for The Alligator now open! - The Independent Florida...

The Independent Florida Alligator is looking for its next team of reporters, editors, photographers and more for the Summer semester.

www.alligator.org

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

By the way, “please don’t touch me” isn’t somebody being cold or disrespectful and it’s not something to laugh off and disregard. Personal space isn’t a punchline or a funny quirk. Respect it.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

Smiled, waved and didn’t even trip. CJ-see ya 🥳📝🐊

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

Day 1 @GainesvilleSun and @noroneill and I are already back in sync 👊🏻

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Babe wake up new Gator damage control just dropped

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

Here at Tigert Hall where a group of about 100 students, faculty and other members of the UF community are protesting the first day of Ben Sasse’s tenure as UF’s newest president for @GainesvilleSun . Follow along for updates

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

Hey @UFJSchool

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

I heard you don’t actually get your degree until the grad pic dump…

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Literally Any Given Location In Florida At Any Point In Time: A Biography

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

If you love something, use it to write your best story ever and then set it free. If it meets you in the Midwest two years later, it’s yours <3.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

After a harrowing journey down the darkest dirt road in history, I’m live from Rep. Kat Cammack’s watch party at the Granville Plantation event venue. Stick around for live updates @TheAlligator

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

I believe “so true bestie!” should be an acceptable reply to a discussion post

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

For those curious, I did attend the Taylor Swift/Alana Haim joint birthday party but you couldn’t see me because I was in the back. We had a great time but I was in the back. That’s why you couldn’t see me even though I was there and had a great time. I was in the back.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Shoegaze

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

UF: It’s official!!! We’re reopening!!! This fall!!! We have a plan!!! To reopen!!! Officially!!! Campus!!! Will!!! Be!!! Open!!! In!!! The!!! Fall!!! Also UF:

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

I’m live from the corner of 140th Street and MLK Boulevard with @SophiaAbolfathi in the city Alachua where a protest against Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appearance at an Alachua County Republicans fundraiser is underway. Keep it here for updates @TheAlligator

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

I’ve never been in a relationship but I have listened to the Kacey Musgraves marriage album AND the Kacey Musgraves divorce album and that’s pretty much the same thing

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

I want couples who went to high school with me to make celebrity-style public announcements when they break up. I watched you slow dance and make out to Lil Jon at prom the LEAST you can do is keep me in the loop 🙄

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

10 months

Ended a lede with “and just like that” today

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Do not talk to me I am conducting Very Serious Editor Business in a Very Serious Newsroom

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Why are you, a coffee shop, closing at 2 when I, an individual with the worst sleep schedule in history and a pile of work to finish, don’t start to feel like a human being until noon at the earliest

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Expert journalism in the works on this end!

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Our last front page of the summer calls for some parting words. Managing editor was never on my radar, but when opportunity knocks, you swing that door open. This was the most exciting, terrifying, rewarding, draining, wonderful, horrible, incredible experience of my life:

The Alligator

@TheAlligator

2 years

One last front page for the Summer. Thank you to all who followed our coverage this semester.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

Locals: you’re ENDING RELATIONSHIPS 💔 because someone has a DIFFERENT OPINION than you 🗣??? This is AMERICA 🇺🇸 We live in a DEMOCRACY 🗳 GROW UP or GET OUT 😤‼️ Locals: if you don’t think 🤔💭 the office 👔🗃 is peak comedy 😂💯 you don’t deserve ❌🚫 to be alive 💀🔫

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

POV: caffeinated, way too knowledgeable on political parties in congress and walking into the final final of undergrad. Go gata 🐊

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

He gets it

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Was just h*te cr*med at the Jax airport (asked if 12 or under)

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

This should be fun. Checking in at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center for @alligatorSports , where the Florida Gators women's basketball team is set to take on the Tennessee Lady Vols in the conference opener. Almost tip-off, so stick around. Sports reporter era incoming.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

Able to snag some expert sources in Ocala. Got them on the record but they drew the line at the camera.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

I’ve spent more than a year with @TheFloridaAve . Three semesters of writing and one wonderful turn as editor later, I’m done. For the first time in over 12 months, I have to leave home.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

10 months

And we’re out. Thanks for everything, Indy ❤️‍🔥

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

So the best desk in the newsroom @TheFloridaAve put out SEVEN (7) articles today! Indulge me in my ~proud editor moment~ and check out these fantastic stories from the dream team.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

Sappy little tweet: Paramore’s been my favorite band since high school (heathy dose of ~idle~ worship included - sorry Hayley). Missed them in 2018 when they toured After Laughter and swore I’d catch them if they played near me again. Five years later, Indiana. Who knew…

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Pain.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Welcome to the big leagues, Gainesville: it’s primary day. I’m at the Hilton UF Conference Center, Alachua County’s 36th Precinct, to scope out the crowd for @TheAlligator . Pretty quiet so far, but stick around!

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Breaking: Very Serious Reporter conducts Very Serious Reporter Business @TheAlligator

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Studies have shown if you put on a silly little outfit and take a silly little drive and drink a silly little coffee and listen to a silly little playlist you’ll have the most productive day of your existence

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Fine. You did it. You broke me. You win. I beg for sweet release from the chamber of unknowing. What is a wordle. What. Is. A. Wordle.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Oh she was PISSED

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

And then I said “great! how are you?” like the lying piece of scum that I am

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

We did it! My first “how’s the journalism thing?” of the day not even five minutes after getting to my uncle’s house! Congrats to all involved on such a wonderful achievement!

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

how did he get...guys...guys I’m scared...oh god oh f-

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

We inform, you decide.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

Yes I am constantly questioning the actions and ethics of UF. Yes I am going to brag that UF is now a top 6 public university. We exist. We march.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

I can’t be the only j-school kiddo absolutely exhausted from writing “with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic”...it cannot just be me...

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

The women’s basketball bucket list just shrunk by one in Greenville. SEC tourney, let’s ride 🔥

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

A formal hello to what I assume is the bulk of the Indiana Daily Student, which has tracked me down after only 24 hours as a twitter-confirmed Indy journalist. You guys work fast 🫡

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

The indescribable serotonin boost from getting a voice memo...it’s like the advent calendar of communication

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Things I saw last night: -the blue mesh barricade a quarter mile back from the building -a paper-mache replica of the governor -a protester in an Easter Bunny head -a ufo, probably Things I did not see last night: - @GovRonDeSantis More on those scenes @TheAlligator

The Alligator

@TheAlligator

2 years

Alachua County Republicans kept @GovRonDeSantis behind closed doors and away from press Thursday, but protesters still made their presence known in the city of Alachua.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Real talk though I am so exhausted with the narrative that journos don’t get paid. We know. We are well aware. We get beat over the head with it every day by professors and family members and loose acquaintances who ask about our careers. You don’t have to remind us.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

When that 11:30 text comes in for a noon event, you pack that laptop, put on that blazer and report. First for my last ride @TheAlligator as the (wait for it) enterprise elections reporter. Here’s to giving it my best shot <3

The Alligator

@TheAlligator

2 years

@NikkiFried ’s bus tour has eight more stops ahead of Tuesday’s primary. She came to Gainesville four days after Rep. @CharlieCrist , another Democratic candidate for governor, visited the city on the campaign trail.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

I’m a pretty trustworthy person but I don’t think I’ve ever said “I have most of the pre-reporting done” and meant it

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Welcome to primetime, everybody. The political Super Bowl is here, and this elections reporter is amped up. Officially kicking off some Election Day coverage before I hit the precincts. Stick around for the names, numbers and need-to-knows @TheAlligator

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

Did you experience absolutely no emotional trauma during freshman year or are you normal

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Only took a quick trip to every corner of campus and a few dozen phone calls to gather some intel on Gainesville’s response to this move from the governor’s office. Spoiler alert: most aren’t too happy. A better descriptor than that online @TheAlligator

The Alligator

@TheAlligator

2 years

“If you’re representing the state of Florida, you know that a good chunk of individuals are immigrants,” a UF employee said. “It just feels like over and over and over again, we get let down.”

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

Not me trying to flirt in a canvas discussion...”can’t wait to see what you come up with :)” I am going to die alone

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

Remember when I said I was gonna study ahaha

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

More than a year into this journalism thing and roomie still can’t get over the fact that it’s called a nut graph

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

10 months

Normally wouldn’t engage but to the points that I a) am bad at my job, b) hate fun and c) should quit journalism (or, you know, worse): not super cool to have in my mentions! I like the band, I really do! Just a little too gimmicky for me this time, ok?

heather bushman

@hmb_1013

10 months

Fall Out Boy, if you’re listening: I still love you guys - just leave the flamethrowers and firecrackers at home next time, maybe. A scared little recap for @indystar :

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

Coming up for air to say I’m officially a washed-up student journalist. Wouldn’t want to take this wild ride with any other collection of writers, editors, mentors, colleagues, people. Thanks for everything @TheAlligator <3

How to sprint through a marathon - The Independent Florida Alligator

Lessons from laps around The Alligator track

www.alligator.org

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Devastated to announce my cousin is a confirmed Disney adult. Appreciate your thoughts as my family works through this difficult time 🙏🏻.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

Today’s office…gator nattys go vroom 💥 🏁

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Me: I would give at least one of my vital organs to write for [Important Music Publication] Dad: just email them :) say you’re interested :) they’ll hire you on the spot :)

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

I’m not like other girls...I’m much worse 😊

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Freshman Year: not sure how I feel about Gainesville :/ (Almost) Junior Year: I physically cannot stay away from Gainesville for more than two weeks

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

This was supposed to be one LinkedIn-Type picture who do I think I am 🙄

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Gaslighting myself into thinking I’ll read over break by bringing a book home

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

“My fall fits are about to pop OFF 😈” I say in a closet filled with old hoodies, four iterations of the same flannel and a poor excuse for a jean jacket

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

I am the perfect editor not because I am particularly good at my job but because I have the sleep schedule of a bat who also enjoys daylight sometimes

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

9 months

Oh how I missed the south. We are SO back.

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

So...guess I’m a capital-R Reporter now. Talked the turnpike for my first shot at The News for @WUFTNews (and I really, really liked it)

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Using my downtime at home to get back into reading! I forgot how much I loved it! Can’t wait to never pick up a book again the second I am slightly busy!

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

I’m at the Stephen C. Mickle Sr. Courthouse where about a dozen residents are protesting the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade. @TheAlligator

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

Mom-reviewed, mom-approved 🫡

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

You listen to a song maybe twice on Spotify and they’re like “oh? OH??? Is this???? Your new favorite song????? Yeah you LOVE this song!!! We’re gonna put it at the top of your on repeat and model daily mixes after it and tell the artist you have a massive crush on them!!!”

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

1 year

Technically I’m a reporter but I think being @_Lauren_Witte ’s “favorite little buddy” is a lot cooler. She lets me hold the camera bag and points me toward sources while she gets incredible shots to go with my silly little words. It’s a mutually beneficial partnership <3

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Too many stories/writers/editors to shout out but we’ve got some good ones. Second week and going strong ❤️

The Alligator

@TheAlligator

2 years

This week’s front page!

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

Gators. Use. Prison Labor.

FLORIDA

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4 years

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

I love when everyone navigates a 4-way stop correctly and waits their turn like yessssss guys teamwork!

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

So productive with my summer classes today ☺️ I’ve never seen an instrument in my life ☺️ what is Heat Wave by Snail Mail ☺️

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

Hey (with the intention of doing the Washington Post crossword together)

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

2 years

I am now and forever a digital content enthusiast. Ask me about interactive maps I dare you. (Aka New Student Edition is live! Maps and polls and fun articles all around on our specials page, check it out online @TheAlligator !)

The Alligator

@TheAlligator

2 years

Hello, new students!⁠ ⁠ As Summer B kicks off and the first wave of the class of 2026 gets to Gainesville, we’ve created our own guide to your new college town — everything from our staff's favorite coffee shops to what to know about UF's football team!

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Just me and my lil shoulder shrugs...no thoughts, simply vibes

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

4 years

It’s email time St. Johns kiddos ☺️

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Announcing my retirement from music journalism due to personal reasons* *was handed aux today and fumbled the bag atrociously

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heather bushman

@hmb_1013

3 years

Artists are announcing tour dates and not stopping anywhere within four hours of Jax again 😍 nature is healing ✨

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