Quartz hires McNamara as breaking news editor

Audrey McNamara

Business news site Quartz has hired Audrey McNamara as breaking news editor.

In her role, McNamara will directly manage multiple reporters, shape and edit a wide range of stories while working with reporters and editors across the newsroom to plan and drive coverage and audience growth.

McNamara previously worked for The Messenger, where she was also a breaking news editor. She has edited and reported for The Daily Mail, CBS, The Daily Beast, and NPR.

“We are very excited to welcome Audrey to the Quartz team,” said Quartz editor in chief Dan Hirshhorn in a statement. “Her expertise and leadership will be a huge asset to Quartz’s continued journalistic and audience growth.”

McNamara got her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

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.