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STAT News hires CNBC executive Harris

Seth Harris

Health industry news site STAT has hired Seth Harris to the new role of senior vice president for growth & subscriptions.

Harris joins STAT from CNBC, where he served for more than 11 years in key leadership roles, most recently as vice president of direct-to-consumer strategy and operations.

Harris led CNBC’s premium subscription portfolio and oversaw continual record revenue and profit growth in four years. Last summer, he was recognized with CNBC’s “Live Ambitiously” award for 2025.

Harris has held other positions in digital media over the last two decades, including at the Associated Press, where he focused on digital strategy and developing new products.

“Seth will be a tremendous leader at STAT as we set off on our second decade determined to take our enterprise to even greater heights,’’ said Rick Berke, STAT’s co-founder and executive editor, in a statement.

Harris will manage strategic and growth priorities, including identifying new initiatives, acquisition possibilities, market opportunities, and products to boost reader engagement and subscriptions.

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.

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