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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of the Florida student financial aid data breach was essentially uniform across the two outlets that reported on it, with a bias spread of 0.0 points. Both the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times adopted straightforward, factual framing with no ideological loading. The Miami Herald used the word "hacked" and specified a scale — "up to 4.9 million affected" — while the Tampa Bay Times described the same event with the softer phrase "had a data breach," but neither choice reflects political bias; both are standard journalistic phrasings. Both headlines also employed a reader-service construction ("What we know" / "Here's what to know"), signaling informational rather than advocacy-driven intent. There is no meaningful framing divide to report here; the story was treated as a straightforward public-interest news item by both outlets.