Florida Phoenix was established in 2018 as a left-leaning news and opinion outlet focused on government and political news coverage within the state of Florida. It is part of the left-of-center media organization States Newsroom (formerly the Newsroom Network), which was until 2019 a project of the Hopewell Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit managed by the for-profit consulting firm Arabella Advisors.
Florida Phoenix is also supported by the Washington DC-based New Venture Fund, another grantmaking and project sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors. New Venture Fund is underwritten by organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Arabella Advisors have faced criticism for creating a “dark money” network of left-of-center advocacy organizations.
Thanks for the background, foundational information.
I receive an assortment of FL oriented news/opinion links via email every day.
While FL Phoenix is certainly left leaning, this article is the worst I’ve seen.
I posted it because it strikes me as typical of Leftist opinion.
Frightening.