STAT hires Florko as DC correspondent

Nicholas Florko

Boston Globe-backed health care news site STAT has hired Nicholas Florko to be its Washington correspondent.

He will start on Sept. 10.

Florko is currently the managing editor of Inside Health Policy’s FDA Week, a daily online news site coupled with a weekly print publication covering all things FDA policy.

His reporting covers everything from drug pricing to agricultural standards and takes varying forms from 300-word blogs to 1500-word investigative pieces.

He most frequently reports on litigation, drug pricing, off-label promotion, generic and biosimilar drugs and pharmaceutical compounding.

He is a graduate of American University in international studies and biology.

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.