McFarling names national science correspondent at STAT News

Usha McFarling

Usha Lee McFarling has been named national science correspondent at STAT News.

She has been the news organization’s Los Angeles correspondent since April 2016. She has been writing stories on COVID’s impact on marginalized communities, including Filipino nurses, the Cherokee Nation, and immigrants.

Her new focus this year will be a project on the obstacles to racial equity in scientific and medical institutions, government, academia, and business.

McFarling has reported for the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau. In 2007, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism for her work on the diseased state of the world’s oceans.

She is a graduate of Brown University, and also has a master’s degree from University of California, Berkeley.

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.