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Pharmalot blogger Silverman joining Boston Globe

Ed Silverman, the Wall Street Journal reporter who runs the Pharmalot blog that covers the drug industry, is joining the Boston Globe.

With the Globe, Silverman will be joining the Globe’s new health care news called Stat that debuts in the fall. He’ll be taking Pharmalot with him and writing a weekly column, too.

Silverman had been laid off from the Journal last month.

Silverman had been hired by the Journal in February 2014 and revived the Pharmalot blog, which he had started while working at the Newark Star-Ledger.

Silverman’s work covering pharma is well known. He wrote a three-part series about allegations that Pfizer sales reps were encouraged to use inappropriate practices to boost sales of an older AIDS drug, which was honored by the Association of Health Care Journalists.

He also broke stories about use of a corporate helicopter by a Pfizer executive to commute from an out-of-state home; FDA plans to boost inspections in China; and a paper co-authored by an FDA staffer that questioned the safety of a widely used diabetes pill — before it was published in JAMA.

Silverman also worked at New York Newsday and Investor’s Business Daily.

He has a master’s degree in journalism from New York University and a bachelor’s in accounting from Binghamton University.

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.

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