Available in English Website www.statnews.com | Editor Rick Berke | |
Slogan(s) Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Alexa rank 27,647 (Global 10/2016) Launched 4 November 2015; 15 months ago (2015-11-04) | ||
Stat (stylized STAT, sometimes also called Stat News) is a health-oriented news website launched on November 4, 2015 by John W. Henry, the owner of the Boston Globe. It is produced by Boston Globe Media and is headquartered in the Globe's own building in Boston. Its executive editor is Rick Berke, who formerly worked at both the New York Times and Politico. According to Kelsey Sutton of Politico, the website is Henry's "biggest and most ambitious standalone site yet". As of February 2016, it had 45 staff members.
Impact
Notable stories Stat has broken include one about Robert Califf's research, which they ran a story about after President Barack Obama announced he would be his nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration. The site also uncovered claims made by a vitamin company to which presidential candidate Donald Trump had licensed his name. The site's reporting has also inspired another presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, to return a contribution a disgraced former pharmaceutical industry CEO made to his campaign. The site has also sent multiple journalists to Colombia, Haiti, and Brazil to cover the zika outbreaks there.