WSJ hires Lawrence to cover the pharma beat
The Wall Street Journal has hired Lizzy Lawrence to cover the pharmaceutical industry. She will start in August. Lawrence currently leads STAT’s coverage of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Her stories explore the relationship between politics and science at the FDA, industry influence, and the agency’s ability to protect and promote public health. She’s won a George Polk […]
STAT News seeks a Washington correspondent
STAT is looking for an enterprising, versatile, curious, and hard-charging reporter to join our award-winning Washington D.C. bureau at this unique moment in our country’s history, when an understanding of the issues that STAT covers in Washington is more relevant than ever. This reporter will pursue ambitious and impactful stories focused on the intersection of […]
STAT News is sticking with “health care”
Sarah Mupo, director of editorial operations at STAT News, writes about why the health care news organization will continue to spell “health care” as two words despite the Associated Press Stylebook changing it to one word. Mupo writes, “While usage can sometimes change from two words to one over time (see the stylebook’s move this […]
STAT News seeks a reporter
STAT is seeking an ambitious and intellectually curious reporter to cover one of the defining issues in medicine, science, and public health today: declining trust in science. This reporter will produce deeply reported explanatory and accountability journalism that helps readers understand where and why trust is breaking down, current manifestations, the consequences for public health, […]
STAT News hires CNBC executive 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 […]
Business Insider, STAT News win Polk Awards
Business Insider and STAT News were among the winners of George Polk Awards announced Wednesday, writes Katie Robertson of The New York Times. Robertson writes, “The environmental reporting award went to the staff of Business Insider for their series ‘The True Cost of Data Centers,’ which examined the many impacts on communities and the environment of the […]
STAT News, Bloomberg among the EPPY Award winners
The 2025 EPPY Awards, celebrating the best in digital journalism and innovation, spotlight excellence from newsrooms large and small. This year’s winners showcase how technology, collaboration, and storytelling continue to evolve across the media landscape — from bold investigative work to cutting-edge audience engagement. Here are the business-related winners: Best Business/ Finance Website (With fewer than […]
STAT wins NYFWA award
The New York Financial Writers’ Association announced at last night’s Financial Follies gala that STAT News has won the 2025 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism for “Denied by AI.” The four-part series, reported by Casey Ross and Bob Herman, helped change the national public conversation about the use of AI in health care by exposing how algorithms have […]
Garde returning to STAT News to work on events
Bloomberg News pharma reporter Damian Garde is returning to STAT News to work on events in addition to reporting. “Damian’s one of the most fluid and creative writers I have ever worked with, and he knows the biopharma industry like few others,” wrote Matthew Herper of STAT News on social media. Garde had joined Bloomberg in April 2024 to […]
ProPublica, STAT News among the Barlett & Steele winners
The winners of the 19th Annual Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism highlighted the variety of ways and the extent to which the public’s health is impacted – oftentimes negatively – by companies’ pursuit to maximize profits. Each award-winning investigation shed light on a systematic abuse that has left Americans disadvantaged in the […]
