Quartz hires Asia reporter, Things reporter

Financial news site Quartz has hired two new reporters — one to cover Asia and another for its Things team. Leslie Nguyen-Okwu is joining the Asia team as a reporter based in Taipei. Nguyen-Okwu is a Stanford University-educated journalist. Her work has been featured in National Geographic, BBC, Vice and NPR. She serves as a […]

Quartz hires Mureithi to cover East Africa

Financial news site Quartz has hired Carlos Mureithi to cover East Africa. He replaces Abdi Latif Dahir, who left to join the New York Times. Mureithi has been special projects producer and web producer for Daily Nation, a newspaper in Nairobi. He was also a contributing writer to the Times. He was a graduate news reporting inern with […]

Quartz audience editor Stier joins MSNBC

Quartz audience editor Molly Stier has left the financial news site and has joined MSNBC as a digital platforms editor. At Quartz, she oversaw audience growth and engagement for the site’s paid membership program. Previously, she was the social media editor at The Daily Dot and a fact-checker at The Nation. She is from Texas, where she attended the […]

CuriosityStream taps Huston as VP of communications

CuriosityStream, a leading global factual streaming service and media company has tapped industry veteran Ashley Huston as vice president of communications. In her new role, she will oversee external and internal communications for the global factual media company and streaming service. Huston joins CuriosityStream from Quartz where she was vice president, communications. There, she drove […]

Quartz makes its content available on the Bloomberg terminal

Financial news site Quartz announced Tuesday that its content will now be available to Bloomberg terminal subscribers. The move comes less than one month after Quartz promoted Natalie Diamond to the role of chief revenue officer. Quartz’s management bought the site last year and have been changing its operations. “We are delighted to provide Bloomberg […]

Rest of World hires Quartz’s Adegoke

Tech news site Rest of World has hired Quartz Africa editor Yinka Adgoke as editor of strategic initiatives. He will work on audience strategies for growth and also oversee its Africa coverage. Before Quartz, Adegoke was a media business reporter for Reuters for the past six-and-a-half years and deputy editor of Billboard. He was also […]

How Quartz uses coding to update posted stories

David Yanofsky, the things editor at financial news site Quartz, told Talking Biz News about how it puts coding into stories so that they automatically update. He writes: We write little snippets of code that download data from known locations, calculate some key values, then save the results to a file. When a reader comes […]

Quartz seeks an emerging industries editor

Quartz seeks an entrepreneurial editor with a background in science and tech journalism to shape our coverage of emerging companies and industries through obsessions such as The Climate Economy, Beyond Silicon Valley, Future of Work, and How We Spend. We are looking for someone with professional editing and reporting experience, a facility with data, a […]

Quartz promotes Diamond to chief revenue officer

Quartz has appointed Natalie Diamond to the role of chief revenue officer, responsible for the company’s advertising business. Diamond joined Quartz in 2014 and most recently served as vice president of partnerships and managed the global sales team. “From the time she arrived at Quartz, Natalie quickly distinguished herself as our most effective, tenacious, and […]

Why Quartz’s management decided to buy the financial news site

Peter Kafka of Recode spoke with Zach Seward, the CEO of Quartz, about why he and others have purchased the financial news site. Seward is seeking additional investors in Quartz. He told Kafka that the pitch is that Quartz has a strong brand with a dedicated, loyal audience that is interested in global business news. He noted […]