Bloomberg hires DeAngelis to cover biotech, pharma
Bloomberg News has hired STAT News reporter Allison DeAngelis to cover biotech and pharmaceutical companies. She will start next week. She has been covering venture capital and biopharmaceutical startups and previously covered biotech and pharmaceuticals companies for Business Insider. DeAngelis has previously been with the Boston Business Journal. She previously worked for The Eagle-Tribune in Derry, New Hampshire as a reporter […]
Branswell, original STAT News correspondent, dies at 69
Helen Branswell, one of the original reporters for STAT News when it launched in 2015, died Tuesday at the age of 69 from cancer. Andrew Joseph of STAT News reports, “Branswell, a longtime reporter at the Canadian Press, joined STAT at its founding in 2015, working out of the Boston headquarters before returning home to Canada […]
WSJ, STAT News, The Economist among the Loeb winners
The Wall Street Journal, STAT News and The Economist were among the winners of the Gerald Loeb Awards on Thursday evening. AUDIO The Economist’s Scam Inc. – The EconomistSue-Lin Wong, Sam Colbert, Alizée Jean-Baptiste, Claire Read, Rosie Blau, Weidong Lin and John Shields BEAT REPORTING STAT’s Reporting on FDA Chaos – STATLizzy Lawrence BREAKING NEWS […]
STAT News seeks a national pharma correspondent
STAT is looking for a sharp, high-caliber reporter to join our first-rate team covering the pharma industry. While this reporter would break news and deliver quick-turn analyses, they would be expected to deliver big picture enterprise, including deeply reported company stories, profiles of top executives, narratives, and investigations that get inside the culture and internal […]
NY Times hires STAT’s Boodman
New York Times science editor Bill Wasik sent out the following: I’m thrilled to announce that Eric Boodman, one of the most lauded rising talents in the world of science writing, will be joining The Times in the new role of national science correspondent. Eric comes to us from STAT, where he has worked since its founding […]
STAT hires two new reporters
STAT announced Monday the hiring of two new reporters — Nicholas Florko and Margaret Manto. Florko will pioneer a new beat covering declining trust in science and producing explanatory and accountability journalism that helps readers understand where and why trust is breaking down as well as the consequences of that skepticism. Manto will join STAT’s […]
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, […]
