Reporter is just writing like he or she speaks every day. I’m constantly correcting my kids. School teachers must talk that way, too.
We’re definitely losing the distinction between object and subject pronouns.
Worse.
Back in the mid 70s, I was watching coverage of school teachers striking in Chicago, the interviewer asked one of the picketers, "what do you do at the school"?
I'm not making this up, she replied, "I teaches English".
Heaven help us.