STAT seeks a Washington correspondent

STAT, a leading health and medicine publication, is looking for an energetic, versatile, and hard-charging reporter to join our Washington D.C. bureau.

The ideal candidate will have experience as a beat reporter or equivalent experience covering health-related political stories. Reporting background in any of these areas is a plus: Congress, the White House, the FDA, HHS, hospitals or health tech.

STAT covers a range of issues debated in D.C., with a particular emphasis on the government’s response to Covid-19, of course, as well as drug pricing reform, biomedical research funding and regulation, public health policymaking, and the health sector’s influence in Washington.

We’re looking for a reporter who can break news and deliver quick-turn analyses, including for our subscription offering, STAT Plus, but also conceive of and execute illuminating, provocative and unexpected enterprise stories. Our Washington reporters make up a small but close-knit team that stands out for impactful exclusives.

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.