Since John Henry bought The Boston Globe in 2013, the paper has looked beyond the Hub of the Universe for digital growth while also capitalizing on coverage areas that would come naturally to a Boston-based company.
Building on The Globe’s long history of reporting on the Catholic Church — at a theater near you, this Friday! — and since the Boston metro area is still one of the most Catholic in the United States, the company last year launched Crux, a site dedicated to covering the faith.
But Crux is small potatoes compared to what the Globe is launching today, its most ambitious standalone effort yet: Stat, a site focused on covering health and life sciences.
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