Observer hires Quartz’s Staley as senior business editor

Oliver Staley

Oliver Staley of Quartz has been hired by The Observer to be its senior business editor.

He has been culture and lifestyle editor at Quartz. He started at Quartz as a management reporter in February 2016 and was promoted to deputy finance and economics editor last year.

Staley hosted a member conference calls for Quartz. He has done ambitious reporting, most notably in his ongoing work on stroke, which has in part been funded by a Pulitzer Center grant (and which took him to Zambia on a reporting trip), and in other deeply reported features on topics ranging from Six Sigma to learning to hunt.

His collaboration with Amanda Shendruk on gender disparity in the world’s orchestras has been recognized by multiple awards programs, and his own culture coverage includes topics like Storm of the X-Men, band breakups, and Stan Lee.

Staley previously worked at Bloomberg News, The Memphis Commercial-Appeal, The Spokesman Review and the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.