Mergermarket/Dealreporter seeks Midwest editor
The editor will act as our team leader in the Chicago office, overseeing day-to-day editorial operations for Mergermarket and Dealreporter. Key responsibilities Managing team of reporters Writing and editing content on M&A and capital markets Regular external meetings to develop sources Key skills Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. A track record, or proven potential, to […]
Recode seeks startups reporter in San Francisco
Recode is looking for a staff reporter to aggressively cover Silicon Valley finance, deals, and startups, based in our San Francisco office. Your job will be to follow the money — and its human handlers — in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and beyond. (And there’s a lot to follow!) What’s this week’s hot deal? Who’s […]
Quartz and its distinctive reporting turns a profit
Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York writes about business news website Quartz, which has turned a profit after four years of operation. Flamm writes, “Four and a half years later, the upstart has done something even more impressive for a publication financed entirely by digital advertising: It turned a profit. “In 2016 qz.com earned more than […]
Why Quartz has user experience as its key strategy
Caroline Scott of Journalism.co.uk writes about why business news site Quartz focuses on the user experience as its key strategy. Scott writes, “‘Focusing on those audiences and serving them beyond just the technological innovation can lead to success – that’s with the golden rule, treating the audiences the way we would like to be treated […]
Vanity Fair’s Hive hires Homans as executive editor
John Homans has been hired by Vanity Fair as executive editor of The Hive, its business news site. He will work with Hive co-founder and editor Jon Kelly, focusing in particular on the Hive’s investigative reach into Washington and the media. His first day will be April 3. The Hive launched last summer and features high-profile […]
How The Information was built on good journalism
Jessica Davies of Digiday writes about how former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin started The Information and built the tech news site on good, strong journalism. Davies writes, “Three years ago, Lessin, 33, took that single-minded focus, along with family money and connections to the tech elite (Mark Zuckerberg was a groomsman at her wedding) to start […]
Why Techmeme is an influential tech news site
Charlie Warzel of BuzzFeed writes about tech news site Techmeme and its influence in the tech industry. Wurzel writes, “Hunter Walk, a former product manager at YouTube turned seed-stage venture capitalist, told me he checks the site three to five times daily. ‘It’s one of my first morning sites,’ he told me over email. ‘My perception […]
Quartz seeks index editor
This is an exciting new opportunity to work at Quartz in our special projects group. Your role will be to create and produce economic, finance, and business stories under the rubric of a newly revamped Quartz Index. The ideal candidate for this job has a passion for visual storytelling, an interest in new products, and […]
FT: Readers who comment are more engaged
The Financial Times has found that those who leave comments read more articles, spend more time on site and come back to the FT more often than those who don’t, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern writes, “The FT wouldn’t give out exact figures but said that commenters are seven times more engaged than those who don’t comment. […]
Quartz, launched four years ago, is now profitable
Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney and co-president and publisher Jay Lauf announced Wednesday evening that the business news website is profitable. Here is their email to to the staff: Hello Quartz – With the accounts for 2016 now finalized, we can officially confirm what we had earlier conveyed: Quartz was profitable last year, a […]
