Four faculty members from the University of Florida talked to UF student Garrett Shanley about a high-stakes battle between faculty members and university officials over a new institute established on campus at the behest of Florida Republicans with ties to Governor Ron DeSantis. Given the perceived risks, only two of Shanley’s sources agreed to be identified by name in his story, which ran in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Shanley employed sophisticated strategies to protect the identity of his confidential sources, including the use of Florida’s freedom-of-information law to obtain a crucial email.