Florko departs STAT News for The Atlantic

Nicholas Florko

The Atlantic has hired Nicholas Florko as a staff writer.

Florko has been at STAT News, where he has pioneered a beat on the many ways that business and regulatory decisions affect individual well-being.

Last year, he was a Livingston finalist for a three-part investigation into prisons’ refusal to treat hepatitis C. (He also bought raw milk on the black market.)

He previously worked at Inside Health Policy, where he was managing editor. Florko holds a bachelor’s degree from American 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.