Biotech reporter Garde departing STAT News
National biotech reporter Damian Garde is leaving STAT News for a new opportunity. Garde was part of a team that won a 2022 Polk Award for reporting about covert lobbying of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He co-writes The Readout newsletter and co-hosts “The Readout LOUD” podcast. Prior to joining STAT in 2016, he spent four years covering […]
STAT News seeks health care business and policy editor
STAT is looking for an accomplished, versatile editor to lead its business and policy teams. This editor would have the skills to handle quick-turn news adroitly and drive deeper coverage, helping reporters conceive of and frame strong enterprise stories, including industry analyses, profiles, and hard-hitting investigations. Our business and Washington-based policy reporters make up small […]
Why STAT News doesn’t cover health awareness days or months
Torie Bosch, the editor of First Opinion at STAT News, writes about why the health care site does not cover health awareness days/weeks/months. Bosch writes, “We probably do need to pay more attention to colorectal cancer. But an article arguing that, timed to a month arguing that, is not compelling reading for the average STAT audience member. […]
Trang joins STAT News as a reporter
STAT News has hired Brittany Trang as a full-time business reporter to cover everything where money intersects with health care. Recently, she was a Sharon Begley science reporting fellow, rotating between the infectious disease, science, policy/business, biotech, and health tech desks. Trang freelanced for Billboard Magazine, Chemistry World, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and has interned […]
NY Times hires STAT senior news editor Thielking
Lori Leibovich, the editor of Well at The New York Times, sent out the following on Thursday: For months, we’ve been searching for a gifted editor to lead Well’s daily news coverage and work with our reporters to further shape our news strategy. We’ve found that person in Megan Thielking. Megan is joining us from […]
STAT News unveils new look
Rick Berke, the executive editor of health care industry news site STAT News, writes about its new look. Berke writes, “We also had outgrown our homepage, which a large proportion of STAT readers visit every day. With the refresh, we showcase more of our authoritative, provocative reporting, but also more of what we do at […]
STAT News hires Merelli as a reporter
STAT News has hired Quartz reporter Annalisa Merelli as a general assignment reporter. She has been at Quartz for nine years, starting as a reporter on the Ideas team. She also covered COVID-19 with a focus on its impact on inequality, ongoing health crises, and the healthcare industry Merelli also Introduced coverage of women’s rights, public health, […]
Verge and STAT among ASME finalists
Tech news site The Verge and health care site STAT News are among the finalists in the annual American Society of Magazine Editors annual National Magazine Awards. The Verge is a finalist in the general excellence, news, sports and entertainment category while STAT is a finalist in the general excellence special interest category. The Economist […]
STAT News hires Bosch as opinion editor
STAT has hired Torie Bosch as its new First Opinion editor, succeeding Patrick Skerrett who retires in March. Bosch will begin her tenure in March and will be based in Philadelphia. Bosch joins STAT after 11 years at Future Tense, an editorially independent partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that focuses on the […]
STAT News hires Lawrence to cover medical devices
STAT News has hired reporter Lizzy Lawrence to cover medical devices. She had been at Protocol covering tools and productivity software in the workplace. Lawrence interned at the Baltimore Sun. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she was editor in chief of the Michigan Daily. While in college, she also interned at Kaiser Health News and at USA Today.
