STAT News hires Tracer as senior editor

Zach Tracer

STAT News has hired Zachary Tracer as senior editor, business and policy.

He will oversee policy and political reporters, as well as the business of health care team.

Most recently, Tracer was at Business Insider, where over the past five years he built the health care team of 10 reporters and editors. Before Insider, Tracer honed his business and policy reporting skills at Bloomberg News, where he covered the rollout of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance markets and Medicaid expansion and then-President Trump’s efforts to repeal the law.

Tracer is a Duke University graduate.

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.