Dear Readers,
Right now, STAT turns 7. I’d like to precise my gratitude to readers like your self for being as passionate as we’re about what we’ve constructed: a media firm centered single-mindedly on the worlds of well being, drugs, and life sciences that now stands at greater than 100 workers sturdy.
We now have created one thing that’s extremely uncommon as of late: a self-sustaining, thriving information group with readers paying for high-quality, bold, provocative journalism. Our readers are vastly loyal; the renewal charge of our paying subscribers is without doubt one of the highest within the trade.
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When the pandemic hit, tens of hundreds of thousands of latest readers turned to STAT for our authoritative protection of Covid and vaccine growth. Since then, we’ve expanded quickly, going deeper into our core protection areas of biopharma, life sciences, public well being, politics and coverage, well being tech, and First Opinion.
Over the previous yr, we’ve employed well-sourced reporters to cowl new areas as effectively: hospitals and insurance coverage, the enterprise of well being, power ailments, dependancy, business determinants of well being, and heart problems. We now have dominated the protection of Alzheimer’s illness and the FDA’s approval of a brand new therapy. We now have delivered on our unparalleled dedication to show racism in drugs, via award-winning tales and movies, in addition to our new podcast, “Coloration Code.” We now have caused significant change; for instance, our reporting led Epic, the nation’s dominant vendor of well being data, to overtake its extensively criticized mannequin for figuring out sepsis. And we unveiled our first feature-length documentary with NOVA on PBS.
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This week alone, our standouts embody an investigation of a non-public fairness agency relentlessly pursuing income, to the detriment of sufferers, and an examination of why it’s taken years for the FDA to scrutinize pulse oximeters, which could be much less correct for folks with darker pores and skin. We additionally revealed a particular report from Matthew Herper, who drew on his 20 years as one of the vital revered journalists overlaying the sphere to elucidate why we’re not ready for the subsequent wave of biotech innovation.
We’re hardly sitting nonetheless. In coming months, you’ll see extra fruits of our willpower to cowl two topical tales: the results of the Supreme Courtroom’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade and the difficulty of what the well being care system is — or isn’t — doing writ giant to restrict carbon emissions. You’ll see the publication of a undertaking — greater than two years within the making — on the jail system’s failure to reply to a lethal however preventable public well being disaster. And subsequent yr, STAT is deploying its first reporter abroad, responding to readers who’ve been clamoring for protection from Europe.
Past written phrases, this yr we’ve launched 140 new merchandise, together with STAT Trials Pulse, a one-of-a-kind medical intelligence platform that alerts customers to real-time adjustments based mostly on proprietary occasion classifications developed in collaboration with STAT reporters. We’re constructing a sprawling program to interact our group, together with STAT Locals, a sequence of gatherings throughout the nation the place we’ve related our readers. And maintain an eye fixed out for an thrilling refresh of our homepage that’s now underway.
And later this month, we are going to host our fourth-annual STAT Summit in Boston, our flagship gathering that options solution-focused discussions on a very powerful matters in well being care with a few of the subject’s biggest minds.
These increasing ambitions for STAT journalism are expensive, and I’d be grateful in the event you’d take into account becoming a member of probably the most loyal of our readers by buying a STAT+ subscription. Not less than half our tales, and most of the largest exclusives, are revealed behind the paywall.
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Thanks for studying STAT. As all the time, please attain out to me with suggestions. I’m at [email protected], on Twitter @rickberke, and on LinkedIn.