{"id":282268,"date":"2026-05-23T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282268\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T20:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:29:18","slug":"hope-floridas-chroniclers-head-west-alexandra-glorioso-and-lawrence-mower-bound-for-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282268\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Florida&#8217;s chroniclers head west: Alexandra Glorioso and Lawrence Mower bound for Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three reporters who have shaped state government coverage are heading out, led by two of the journalists at the center of the Hope Florida saga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alexandra Glorioso, a state government reporter at the Miami Herald, is joining the investigative unit jointly operated by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, the organizations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/05\/22\/alexandra-glorioso-texas-tribune-propublica\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">announced Friday<\/a>. She starts May 26 and will be based in Austin, doing statewide political and health care investigations. \u201cIt\u2019s a total dream job for me,\u201d Glorioso <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aglorios\/status\/2057926204083032271\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s so much energy in Texas politics right now, and I can\u2019t wait to join my colleagues in shining a light on the dealmaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Glorioso was part of the team that uncovered how Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2018 administration steered $10 million in public funds to the Hope Florida Foundation, the nonprofit championed by Casey DeSantis as a welfare alternative. The reporting showed more than $35 million was funneled from state coffers into political committees that helped defeat the 2024 recreational marijuana and abortion ballot measures. It prompted a criminal grand jury investigation and a change in state law. Glorioso and her collaborators were named finalists for the 2026 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Earlier, while at POLITICO, she exposed the misconduct allegations that ended a state Senator\u2019s political career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Where Glorioso goes, so goes her reporting partner. Lawrence Mower, the Tampa Bay Times\u2019 Tallahassee correspondent and one of her chief Hope Florida collaborators, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lmower3\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">posted<\/a> that he and Glorioso \u2014 who are married \u2014 are relocating to Austin in August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You may have been on the other side of Glorioso\u2019s or Mower\u2019s reporting, but, watching them from afar, especially during Glorioso\u2019s battle against cancer, it is clear they make an incredible couple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/states\/florida\/work-save-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-796632 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/728x903.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">And in a separate departure, Cody Butler, who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CodyButlerTV\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">launched<\/a> Gray\u2019s Florida Capital Bureau in 2023, said his last day was Friday. He\u2019s headed to WHIO in Dayton, Ohio, to anchor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Ed. note: This story was drafted with assistance from AI. Editorial judgment, sourcing, and final review were performed by Peter Schorsch and the Florida Politics editorial team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three reporters who have shaped state government coverage are heading out, led by two of the journalists at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-282268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}