Kate Payne

Reporter for @TheFloridaTrib | priors: @AP @WLRN @IowaPublicRadio @WFSUmedia | Florida woman | send tips & chisme ✍️ [email protected]

[Nate Monroe @NateM_Tributary]

New @TheFloridaTrib | In the DeSantis era, the task of finding university and college presidents – once an academic exercise – is a secretive, thorny project that is inextricably linked to the ebbs and flows of Republican politics. 

📝 @MrMikeVasquez

[Kate Payne @hellokatepayne]

Scathing letter from Florida's senior U.S. Senator skewering the state's closed-door process for picking university presidents -- and the multimillion-dollar payouts that result 👇

[Rick Scott @SenRickScott]

I’m concerned @UF is going to pay someone millions of dollars for not getting a job.

Read more here ⬇️

[Nate Monroe @NateM_Tributary]

New from @TheFloridaTrib and @wjxt4 | Latest in the City Council-JEA controversy: Third subpoena zeroes in on nixed deal for $1.17 million land near Yulee schools

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

Killer reporting here from @hellokatepayne @zsaintlou: https://t.co/OSmNPgkqaS

[Meryl Kornfield @MerylKornfield]

Must read this @hannah_natanson tribute to journalism, especially this heartbreaking part about her reporting on the federal workforce last year https://t.co/euolyIFSVX

[Nate Monroe @NateM_Tributary]

Cool column from the great @Scott_Maxwell featuring @hellokatepayne’s reporting last week on the no-longer-mysterious South Florida Standard.

[Scott Maxwell @Scott_Maxwell]

A So. Fla "news" site is exposed for nonexistent journalists producing AI-generated content.
It was wild.
Really, though, it's just the latest "news" scam in a state full of them, many promoting paid political propaganda.
(w/big credit to @TheFloridaTrib)
https://t.co/37nXeGGnfk

[Jeff Amy @jeffamy]

After nearly 15 years as a reporter with The Associated Press, I was one of 20 employees around the country laid off Friday.

[Nate Monroe @NateM_Tributary]

New @TheFloridaTrib | From ‘low-cost’ to $1 million a day: questions remain about ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ funding

✍️ @hellokatepayne

https://t.co/0lBQKV6pU6

[Mark Scolforo @houseofbuddy]

It’s my turn in the barrel — I’ve just been laid off from AP after 23 years. I owe so much to my colleagues, past and present, and to the oh-so-many people who have talked to me, helped me, made me laugh. If you think you want my personal contacts, DMs are open.

[Mike Sisak @mikesisak]

Another hall of fame class of journalists is leaving @AP — this one involuntarily via layoffs. Reporters in big cities and state capitols. People who’ve broken some of the biggest stories of our time and improved the public’s understanding of important issues. It’s heartbreaking.

[Robert Zullo @rczullo]

The scam at the heart of this is truly breathtaking...

[Carol Marbin Miller @MarbinMiller]

From the FloridaTrib:

Fake news, AI-generated fake reporters and the “pink slime” that publishes them.

@hellokatepayne

[David Ovalle @DavidOvalle305]

Jaw-dropping story by the great @hellokatepayne with @TheFloridaTrib

[The Florida Trib @TheFloridaTrib]

Sham news sites are increasingly common across the US and are a dangerous development for democracy.

Florida Trib reporter @hellokatepayne and @zsaintlou with the Question Everything @PlacementTheory podcast and @kcrw dug into one such site in Florida:

https://t.co/hvujhh2Jt3

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

"Delgado and other 'local journalists' identified as staff of the South Florida Standard are creations of artificial intelligence – complete with fake headshots and made-up biographies peppered with South Florida cliches"

[Nate Monroe @NateM_Tributary]

New @TheFloridaTrib & Question Everything from @kcrw | The rise and fall of an AI-driven ‘local news outlet’ in South Florida

The search to find out who was behind the South Florida Standard shows how easy it is for the people behind these sham outlets to remain in the shadows

[The Florida Trib @TheFloridaTrib]

Florida law does not explicitly require prosecutorial agencies to keep a Brady List – as evidenced by the fact that several don’t.

Eight of the 20 state attorneys’ offices in the state told The Florida Trib they do not maintain a Brady List.

w/@MuckRock

https://t.co/aikY9WP9Wh

[Nate Monroe @NateM_Tributary]

New @TheFloridaTrib | Brady List: The little-known roster of cops who molest, lie, steal or drive drunk

Florida law does not explicitly require prosecutorial agencies to keep a Brady List – as evidenced by the fact that several don’t.

@trinitywbass & @MuckRock

[Romy Ellenbogen @romyellenbogen]

NEW: A routine surrogacy case last year became a springboard for Florida's AG, who is fighting surrogacy as a whole.

The case, which is pending in the 4th DCA, has the potential to alter other reproductive issues in Florida including IVF and abortion.
https://t.co/6r2cItlhOt