Dorworth News launches with a primary-source wire for Florida
The new publication pairs reported stories and commentary with the Dorworth News Service, a wire written from government records and checked before every release.
Chris Dorworth
Publisher and Editor
Chris Dorworth is the founder and publisher of Dorworth News Corporation and the editor of Dorworth News. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2007 to 2012, representing House District 34, and was Speaker-designate. He holds an MBA from Duke University and is a former managing partner of a Florida government-affairs firm. He is an author and the host of The Contrarian Raconteur podcast.
Stories by Chris Dorworth
- PoliticsAnalysis
Where Florida's money in politics is recorded, and what the wire will pull from it
Three public databases hold most of the record: state campaign finance reports, federal filings and the registry of lobbyists who work the Capitol.
The filings behind every Florida company, from Sunbiz to the courts
The state’s corporate registry shows who formed a company, who runs it and whether it is current with the state. Court dockets fill in what the registry leaves out.
- EconomyAnalysis
The data releases that will drive the Economy desk
Jobs, prices and the state’s own economic estimates come out on published schedules. These are the releases the desk will read first.
How the Courts desk reads an opinion
A Florida Supreme Court opinion says who won, what the court decided and why. The desk reports all three from the opinion itself.
Reading a bill on the Florida Senate's site
A Senate bill page holds the text of every version, the amendments, the staff analyses and the votes. Here is what each part tells you.
Polling is broken. Here is how the Dorworth Poll will be different
The methods that once made polls reliable no longer work the way they did. The answer is to show readers everything: the methodology and the weighting behind every poll.
Seminole County, by the record
Property, the courts and county government all leave public records. Here is where each is kept, and what the Florida desk will read.
- PoliticsAnalysis
What a machine-written wire can and cannot do
The DNS wire can read documents quickly and report what they say. Judging what matters, and fixing what goes wrong, still falls to people.
Where the hurricane record lives
The National Hurricane Center publishes the official forecasts while a storm is active and the official account of it afterward. Both matter to Florida homeowners, insurers and builders.
