Kate Payne | The Florida Trib
Kate Payne spent her career in nonprofit newsrooms in Florida and Iowa and her reporting has run the gamut, from interviewing presidential candidates on the campaign trail to middle schoolers in the lunch line.
Kate has won awards for her political reporting, sound editing and feature writing and was named 2024 journalist of the year by the Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Kate’s previous newsrooms include the Associated Press and WLRN Public Media in Miami. Her stories and photographs have been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, NPR and PBS, and her reporting on the death penalty has been cited in a filing in the U.S. Supreme Court.
You can reach Kate at kate.payne@floridatrib.org
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Some contributions from contractors occurred just days before or after the companies landed major state contracts. Fans can also buy $30 t-shirts, $27 baseball hats, and an $8 set of bumper stickers to advertise their support for the attorney general and the makeshift facility he’s credited with coming up with the idea for. -
By many measures, Florida seems like an ideal place for Rep. Byron Donalds to make history as the first Black Republican ever elected governor. -
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The 38-year-old man’s case is among a string of wrongful arrests linked to faulty use of facial recognition and a lack of investigative rigor. -
State lawmakers received an accounting less than an hour before a budget meeting to decide whether to hand over more tax dollars. -
When a reporter asked him about his role in the Hope Florida scandal, the attorney general suggested the reporter committed a crime. -
In the years since officials in his administration directed the secretive disbursement of the $10 million, the governor has continued to elevate and promote many of the key actors involved, helping them climb to some of the most powerful positions of trust in the state. Here’s what the grand jury found about their role in the Hope Florida scandal and where they are now. -
One of the country’s largest energy holding companies is probing just how closely Florida will regulate data centers and the massive costs they could pass down to electric customers, in a key first test of what advocates have called a “historic” consumer protection law. -
Byron and Erika Donalds, a longtime married couple and potent political force, are determined to remake Florida’s education system if he wins the Republican primary and then is elected governor in November. -
The state legislator had been accused of creating an environment of pervasive sexual harassment. The allegations were made by the two young men, who used to work in his office. -
Sham news sites are increasingly common in Florida and across the country, a dangerous development for American democracy -
Florida’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee was created two decades ago to investigate why Florida moms are dying during and after pregnancy – and to stop preventable deaths from happening in the first place. But the secretive panel housed within the Florida Department of Health hadn’t publicly released any annual findings in years until a Florida Trib reporter asked agency officials last week about the committee’s apparent lack of action.
