STAT News hires Parker as data project manager

Emory Parker

Health care news site STAT News has hired J. Emory Parker as its data project manager.

His role will be to champion data journalism at STAT and focus on developing new data products.

Parker has been at The (Charleston) Post and Courier since September 2013, and most recently was its digital editor. He was also interactive editor at the paper. He was also product and interactive editor.

Parker is a graduate of the College of Charleston.

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.