Quartz has 10,000+ paying members
Quartz has announced the number of paying members it has attracted since launching the program a year ago. As of today, the organization boasts 10,438 paying members, according to a source. Uzabase, the Japanese company that acquired and now parents Quartz, revealed a 56% year-over-year increase in revenue across the company through the first three […]
Quartz rolls out UK edition
Quartz is launching a new U.K. edition, following the same new site format as the U.S. version, according to reports. The new site launched Tuesday. The U.K. version of Quartz will include stories that are more relevant or specific to the U.K. and European audiences. Example stories includ U.K. drivers aren’t buying more electric cars and […]
Quartz seeks technology reporter
Quartz is hiring an experienced reporter to contribute to its coverage of the technology sector globally while focusing on producing original insights on the news, reported scoops, and informed analysis. The reporter would help shape the organization’s efforts to take uniquely creative approaches to covering technology news through a business lens and help in developing ways […]
Delaney remembers how Lauren Brown pushed him
Quartz founding editor Kevin Delaney writes about how director of special projects Lauren Brown — who died this week at age 37 — pushed him in his own job. Delaney writes, “As editor of Quartz, I often found Lauren pushing me. She convinced me to create an entrepreneur-in-residence program, through her infectious enthusiasm for the […]
Staley promoted to lifestyle and culture editor at Quartz
Oliver Staley has been promoted to 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 has hosted a half-dozen member conference calls. He has also continued to do his own ambitious reporting, most notably in his […]
What Lauren Brown of Quartz taught Mitra Kalita
Mitra Kalita, now senior vice president at CNN, writes on Medium about what she learned from Lauren Brown of Quartz, who died earlier this week from cancer. Kalita writes, “I hired Lauren at Quartz in the summer of 2012 as my deputy. Until then, I had always been the deputy. “Lauren joined us from Business […]
Brown, special projects director at Quartz, dies from cancer
Lauren Brown, the director of special projects at Quartz, died Tuesday from cancer. She was 37. “It’s been a really rough day at the office. Everyone who worked with her is missing her greatly,” wrote technology editor Mike Murphy on Twitter. She was one of Quartz’s founding editors in 2012 and was its first deputy […]
Quartz seeks a global news editor in London
Quartz seeks an editor to lead its global newsroom team and guide daily coverage with creativity and ambition. You would run Quartz’s global newsroom, assigning coverage, editing stories, and managing teams of journalists around the world, including our Africa and India editions and bureaus in Europe and Asia. The ideal candidate has an obsessive interest […]
How Quartz is rethinking its membership offerings
Christine Schmidt of Nieman Lab writes about how financial news site Quartz is rethinking its membership offerings. Schmidt writes, “It’s also being a bit more aggressive on pricing, offering a 40-percent-off coupon that lowers a new subscriber’s first-year price to $60. “Quartz announced a key hire this morning, bringing Walt Frick (a former Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow here) aboard as […]
Antunes of Quartz receives lifetime achievement award
Xana Antunes, the executive editor of Quartz has received the Front Page Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Before becoming executive editor, Antunes led new initiatives since joining Quartz in 2014. She previously was executive editor and vice president at CNBC Digital. During her two years at CNBC, Antunes led […]
