Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
STAT is a digital news publication covering health, medicine, biotechnology and the life sciences. It is produced by Boston Globe Media Partners as a separate company from its sister publication, The Boston Globe.
Launched Nov. 4, 2015, by John and Linda Henry, owners of The Boston Globe (John Henry acquired the Globe from The New York Times Company in 2013). The idea took shape after a 2014 dinner hosted by Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, when Henry identified a gap in standalone journalism covering Boston and Cambridge's life-sciences sector. Rick Berke, formerly of The New York Times and Politico, became co-founder and executive editor. STAT's staff grew from nearly two dozen at launch to roughly 100 by its 10th anniversary in 2025, with outposts in New York, Washington, D.C., the Midwest, California and, more recently, the U.K.
Twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and has won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence, multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards, George Polk Awards, and Gerald Loeb and SABEW awards. Its four-year legal battle to unseal Purdue Pharma documents shed light on the company's role in the opioid crisis. Reporter Helen Branswell's early January 2020 coverage of the coronavirus outbreak was among the first to link the virus to China.
Founder and Owner: John W. Henry
Co-founder and Executive Editor: Rick Berke
CEO, Boston Globe Media Partners: Linda Henry
Readers in the health, medicine, biotechnology and life-sciences fields, reaching an estimated 2.3 million unique readers monthly as of 2023.
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Headquartered in The Boston Globe's building in Boston, Massachusetts.
Website
https://www.statnews.com
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