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STAT News

U.S. center-left (health and science trade outlet)

Owned byOwned by John W. Henry and Linda Pizzuti Henry through Boston Globe Media Partners. STAT operates separately from The Boston Globe but shares ownership and office space with it.
FundingMainly paid subscriptions to its premium tier, STAT+ (about $399 a year). It also earns money from events, sponsorships, and advertising, and it has had financial backing from its owners. Reports put it at roughly 50,000 subscribers.
On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

STAT launched in late 2015 under Boston Globe owner John Henry, who bought the Globe from the New York Times in 2013. It was founded as a test of whether readers would pay for in-depth reporting on life sciences, and it grew from that idea into a paid-subscription business. Its coverage focuses on biotech, pharma, hospitals, public health, and health policy. It sells a premium tier, STAT+, and also runs events and newsletters. Subscriptions reportedly grew from about 30,000 in 2022 to about 50,000, though STAT laid off 11 employees in December 2024. It has no formal political label and publishes both straight news and opinion, but its reporting often stresses scientific and public-health evidence. Its recent coverage of the Trump administration, including HHS budget cuts, vaccine policy, and the administration's move toward peptide drugs favored by Kennedy, is generally critical of those policies. It also covers administration priorities such as fraud and affordability in plain news terms. Readers should know it is a business-oriented trade publication with wealthy private owners, not a nonprofit.

Sources

  1. Health and medicine publication STAT lays off 11 employees - The Boston Globe
  2. Stat (website) - Wikipedia
  3. STAT Marks 10 Years of Reporting from the Frontiers of Health and Medicine
  4. Stat's 10-Year History Coupling Quality Reportage With Paid Subs - A Media Operator
  5. Trump administration advances plan for peptide drugs favored by RFK Jr. - STAT
  6. Trump health budget offers investments in MAHA, cuts to HHS, NIH - STAT

Profile compiled 2026-11-01; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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