The UFF-FAU Executive Committee learned on September 25 that longtime Palm Beach Post education reporter Kimberly Miller is being removed from her beat and transferred to the real estate section of the newspaper. The abrupt move takes place just days after her important coverage of the FAU Board of Trustees Retreat of September 22-23, which appeared as stories in the print edition of the Post and regular posts to the paper’s Extra Credit Blog. Miller’s coverage of the FAU administration was in the tradition of the Post‘s generally ambitious reportage and editorial commentary that sets the paper apart from the work of its main competitor, the Sun-Sentinel, which was much less thorough and whose coverage of FAU often conformed with the public relations wishes of FAU trustees and administrators. The Sentinel otherwise frequently relied on Miller’s stories which it mutually published through an agreement with the Post.
“We expect [Miller’s] move to real estate coverage to pay even larger dividends for our print readers and Web users,” Palm Beach Post editor Rick Christie told UFF-FAU.