STAT News hires Quartz’s Goldhill as investigative reporter

Olivia Goldhill

STAT News has hired Quartz reporter Olivia Goldhill as an investigative reporter.

She will start Oct. 29 and cover how companies and government agencies respond to the COVID pandemic.

“This is the beat of a lifetime, I can’t wait to join such a phenomenal team,” she wrote on Twitter.

At Quartz she is a science reporter covering the health care industry and psychedelic research. She previously reported on philosophy and psychology, and was part of a Quartz investigative team focused on online political propaganda.

Goldhill was a 2020 Livingston Award finalist for her work on misuse of data to fuel propaganda in Brazil.

Before Quartz, she was a reporter and features writer at The Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom.

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.