Zhang named chief DC correspondent for STAT News

Rachel Cohrs Zhang

Rachel Cohrs Zhang has been promoted to chief Washington correspondent at STAT News.

Rachel will still devote most of her time to reporting, and she will also be STAT’s leader in a Washington operation that now includes nearly a dozen full-time editorial, events, and business staff members.

Cohrs Zhang, a veteran of Modern Healthcare and Inside Health Policy, has been with STAT since January 2021. She has covered a range of subjects, including the Medicare negotiation process and its implementation, the major health care packages moving on Capitol Hill, and the tumult at the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry trade groups.

She also worked for The Dallas Morning News, the Austin American-Statesman and the Sacramento Bee. Her work also appeared in The Atlantic and other outlets.

Cohrs has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California.

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.