Cooney moves to cardiovascular beat at STAT News

Elizabeth Cooney

STAT News reporter Elizabeth Cooney is now cover the cardiovascular beat for the news organization.

Cooney has been the author of the “Morning Rounds” newsletter. She joined STAT in 2017 and has worked as a general assignment reporter and STAT+ editor.

Prior to that, she was the Boston Globe’s inaugural White Coat Notes blogger, before moving on to science writing and editing stints at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

She is a graduate of Cornell University.

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.