Herper of Forbes hired by STAT to cover medicine

Matthew Herper

Forbes senior editor Matthew Herper has been hired by STAT to cover medicine as a senior writer.

He will start in January.

Herper has been with Forbes for 18 years, covering science and medicine, from the Human Genome Project through Vioxx to the blossoming DNA technology changing the world today.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from MIT and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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.