TheStreet’s Feuerstein leaving for STAT

Adam Feuerstein, who has covered biotech companies for TheStreet.com for most of the past 15 years, resigned on Monday to accept a job at STAT.

He will also cover biotech for STAT, which is owned by the Boston Globe and covers health care news, as a national biotech columnist. He starts June 19.

“As for STAT, I first met Rick Berke almost two years ago, exactly,” said Feuerstein in an email to Talking Biz News. “I’ve followed the site’s progress and been impressed with the work they’ve published. They’re kicking ass and my goal is to help them kick more ass. Berke’s pitch to me was ‘We want Adam to be Adam,’ so that’s what I’ll do, continue covering biotech from an investors’ perspective with the same ferocity and no-holds-barred honesty that I’ve been doing for the past 15 years.”

A STAT story one year ago said Feuerstein may “be the most feared journalist covering the biotech industry. He digs deep into the science to take down companies that he believes overhype their drugs, distort their data, or make ridiculously grandiose promises.”

Before joining TheStreet in March 2001, Feuerstein covered business software for Upside.com. Prior to that he covered a variety of business beats, including technology and commercial real estate, at the San Francisco Business Times.

He also worked as a research analyst for a hedge fund in 2005 and 2006 before returning to TheStreet.

“I worked alongside so many talented reporters and editors there,” said Feuerstein about TheStreet. “I learned something from all of them, and they helped me become a better reporter. TheStreet is a permanent part of my DNA, and I will always be a proud and appreciative alumnus of this place.

“Working for and alongside Jim Cramer all these years has been an honor,” he added. “He taught me so much about Wall Street and journalism. I cannot thank him enough.”

Feuerstein graduated from Emory University with a bachelor’s degree in political science.

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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Andrew Bulkeley says:
May 30, 2017 at 7:29 pm
Another rat leaving the ship. Probably time for Kramer/Callaway to throw in the towel. Too stuck in their Marketwatch ways to understand why the new kids in town are eating their breakfast, lunch and dinner