Florida Politics

{{Short description|Political news website}}

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{{Distinguish|Politics of Florida}}

Florida Politics is a news site for politics in the state of Florida. It is operated by Peter Schorsch, who opened the site in 2013 and employs 17 freelance journalists. The site broke the news of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.{{Cite news |title=How a former Florida political operative broke the Mar-a-Lago FBI story |author=Elahe Izadi |newspaper=Washington Post |date=August 9, 2022 |access-date=October 9, 2023 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/08/09/peter-schorsch-trump-fbi-mar-a-lago/}}

Its business model has been described the site as utilizing pay to play, giving favorable coverage in exchange for advertising dollars. Schorsch has called it "combination journalism". It received money from Florida Power & Light via their lobbying firm, Matrix LLC.{{Cite web |title=Florida micro-media mogul breaks news, but is it journalism? |author=Susannah Nesmith |work=Columbia Journalism Review |date=August 31, 2015 |access-date=October 9, 2023 |url=https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/florida_sunburn.php}}{{Cite web |title=Cash for coverage? Questions arise about local political blogger Peter Schorsch |work=Tampa Bay Times |first=Natalie |last=Watson |first2=Caryn |last2=Baird |first3=John Woodrow |last3=Cox |date=November 15, 2013 |access-date=October 9, 2023 |url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/cash-for-coverage-questions-arise-about-local-political-blogger-peter/2152747/}}{{Cite web |title=In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics |author=David Folkenflik |author2=Mario Ariza |author3=Miranda Green |work=NPR |date=December 19, 2022 |access-date=October 9, 2023 |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm}}