MedCityNews.com wants to be in the Silicon Valleys of Healthcare: the places leading the way in innovation and that are home to industry leaders.
Two years ago we started in Cleveland, the country’s hospital capital, and later moved on to Minnesota’s Twin Cities, the nation’s medical device capital. Now, appropriately, we have opened an office in the country’s biotech capital: Research Triangle Park. I am in The Park this week and am excited to meet the local medical community face-to-face.
The Park is a natural for MedCityNews.com. Healthcare stakeholders throughout the country want to know more about what’s happening in North Carolina. RTP has a storied history of innovation and research; includes world-renowned health systems, elite healthcare investors and global companies like GlaxoSmithKline and Quintiles. Plus, it has scores of startups and other medical companies statewide whose stories have yet to be told.
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The backbone of our reporting is business news. But MedCityNews.com goes deeper than that. Our reporters are writing for a national audience of medical industry leaders who yearn to be insiders — both known and in the know — in places like Cleveland and Research Triangle Park. So we write about a local industry like a community or, better yet, like a scene. We provide actionable intelligence on businesses, personalities, culture and policies from healthcare’s innovation hubs. We help make outsiders insiders. We are comprehensive and provide context and analysis no one else can.
That means providing unique analysis, breaking news and the latest developments on even the newest medical companies in the state. Our reporters deliver their opinions on important topics and write unique stories that resonate specifically with the medical industry.
To accomplish our mission, we recruited Frank Vinluan, formerly of the Triangle Business Journal, to be our North Carolina Bureau Chief ([email protected]). He’s joined by Greg Craft, who will lead our business development efforts ([email protected]). Greg is a native of North Carolina who brings more than 30 years of media experience to his position, including work with the Triangle and Triad Business Journals.
Frank’s sole purpose will be to chronicle North Carolina’s medical industry in the way I described above. Greg, meanwhile, will promote services available not only through MedCityNews.com but its parent company: MedCity Media.
I’m in Research Triangle Park this week with the goal of meeting as many members of the medical industry as I can. I have several formal meetings. But in the tradition of a new-media company, I try to have informal gatherings as well. So consider this an open invitation to have a drink on me. I’ll be with my Research Triangle Park staff starting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Tyler’s Tap Room in the American Tobacco Campus. I’ll pick up the first round for the first 50 who come in (provided you walk up and say hello).
MedCity Media doesn’t just aspire to be part of North Carolina’s medical community. We also want to be part of the local entrepreneurial community as well. That’s why we’re proud to be members of Bull City Forward, a community effort to dramatically increase the creation, scale, and impact of social enterprises in Durham. MedCity Media’s local offices will be at Bull City Forward and we’ll participate through community discussions and other events.
I will be speaking at noon Tuesday at Bull City Forward about the opportunities and the ways startups can find funding for healthcare focused projects. I’d be happy to meet you then as well (RSVPs are required for that event).
This is only the beginning of our work in North Carolina. Our staff is now operating full-time, and I will be back regularly. I can’t wait for MedCity Media to become an integral part of the Research Triangle Park community. And I look forward to meeting everyone here.