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Stat Journalists Will Join the Boston Globe's Union

Stat Journalists Will Join the Boston Globe's Union

Journalists at Stat, the medical and science news website lauded for its pandemic coverage, will join the Boston Newspaper Guild, union representatives said in a statement Wednesday.Stat, based in Boston, focuses on science, health and biotech journalism and has close to 40 editorial staff members. It was one of the first outlets to extensively cover the outbreak of the coronavirus in January 2020 and saw a boost in traffic and revenue in the past year as its ambitious coverage gained attention. Helen Branswell, Stat’s infectious-disease reporter, won the 2020 George Polk public service award for her work covering the pandemic.Damian Garde, a biotech reporter for Stat, said in an interview that workers hoped union protections would help make Stat an even more attractive and competitive employer.“When people look at the Stat trajectory, they point to my coll Read the full article

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Danielle Belton Named Top Editor of HuffPost

Danielle Belton Named Top Editor of HuffPost

Danielle Belton, the editor in chief of The Root, will be the new editor in chief of HuffPost, BuzzFeed’s chief executive, Jonah Peretti, told staff on Wednesday.Ms. Belton, 43, will start in her new role on April 12, Mr. Peretti said in an internal email to that was viewed by The New York Times. Her appointment was reported earlier by The Daily Beast.In his email, Mr. Peretti said BuzzFeed had begun its search for a new top HuffPost editor after it announced in November that it was acquiring the website.“Our priorities were to find a leader who had a clear and formidable long-term version for HuffPost, and would champion its urgent, compelling and far-reaching journalism,” he wrote.Ms. Belton was the first editor in chief of The Root, the Black news and culture website owned by G/O Media. She has written and edited for publications including theGrio, Essence, The Washington Post and The Times.Mr. Peretti said that he and BuzzFeed’s editor in chief, Mark Schoofs, offered Ms. Belton the job last week, and that Ms. Belton would report to Mr. Schoofs.The announcement comes two weeks after BuzzFeed laid off Read the full article

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Reporter Apoorva Mandavilli Makes Science of Covid Clearer

Reporter Apoorva Mandavilli Makes Science of Covid Clearer Behind the Byline • APOORVA MANDAVILLIBehind some of The Times’s vital journalism on the coronavirus is a reporter who speaks seven languages, holds a master’s degree in biochemistry and, OK, has a weakness for “Bridgerton.”

March 25, 2021Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.As a science reporter for The New York Times, Apoorva Mandavilli knows the world of research, labs and technical papers. It’s helpful that she’s trained in science, with a master’s degree in biochemistry. She brings that knowledge to her current beat: Covid-19, including the immune response to the coronavirus and the variants that have emerged.Here, she talks about when she realized she didn’t want to be a research scientist, what it’s like to send her own kids back to school and her favorite lowbrow television.How did you start working as a science reporter?I went to graduate school for biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, at Madison. I was there for four years, and I would have gotten a Ph.D. if I’d stayed one more year. But I realized that bein Read the full article