STAT News hires Herman from Axios to cover health care business

Bob Herman

STAT News has hired Axios reporter Bob Herman to cover hospitals, health insurance and other health business stories.

He will start on Feb. 28.

Herman has been at Axios for the past five years covering the finances, policies and politics of the health care industry. Previously, he was the Midwest bureau chief for Modern Healthcare and a senior editor for Becker’s Hospital Review.

Herman is a Butler University graduate. While there, he was editor in chief of the student newspaper.

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.