STAT staff grows 60 percent in 2021

Health care news site STAT has seen its staff grow 60 percent to 80 employees, reports Sara Fischer of Axios.

Fischer reports, “Most news media companies have seen traffic dwindle this year in response to a new presidency and less news interest in COVID-19.

“But Berke says STAT’s audience continues to grow because it’s built up a reputation for authoritative coverage around all health and science stories.

“‘We don’t hang our hat solely on COVID coverage and we never have,’ Berke says, citing new projects tracking underlying racial inequities in health and medicine and coverage of the FDA’s decision to approve the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s.

“One of the company’s biggest investigations this year uncovered ways Epic, the country’s largest electronic health records vendor, was selling algorithms to hospitals that delivered inaccurate information.”

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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.