Quartz has lost five key people
Quartz has lost five key people in the past few months, including some who were central to its revenue-diversification efforts, reports Lucia Moses of Business Insider. Moses reports, “Those helping lead Quartz’s diversification efforts who left were Sam Grobart, who was in charge of Quartz’s fledgling membership program, and his deputy, Sarah Kessler. “Solana Pyne, Quartz’s head […]
NY Times hires Quartz’s Pyne for video team
Solana Pyne has been hired by the New York Times to be a senior member of its leadership team in video. Pyne will lead teams of producers and journalists on coverage across news and enterprise with a focus on original reporting, collaborating with desks across the newsroom, and executing large-scale video projects and interactive work. […]
How artificial intelligence from Quartz helped reporters with the Mauritius Leaks
Jeremy B. Merrill of Quartz writes about how the financial news site’s artificial intelligence tools helped reporters dig through documents that showed how multinational companies avoided paying taxes when they do business in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Merrill writes, “To support the reporters working on the project, Quartz built a machine-learning model that […]
Quartz lays off more business-side employees, reports Digiday
Quartz on June 26 laid off business-side employees for the second time this year, Digiday’s Max Willens reported today. The most-recent round of layoffs included seven employees; the previous one included four. Nearly 10 percent of the company’s total staff has departed over the past 12 months, Willens’ report stated. It elaborated: The layoffs come […]
The Quartz Brief app is being shut down
Quartz Brief, the award-winning news mobile app, is being put out to pasture so the digital news publisher can focus more on a newer one launched in the fall, reports Max Willens of Digiday. Willens reports, “Digiday has learned that Quartz plans to shut down the Quartz Brief, the chatbot-style mobile app launched to great acclaim in […]
Quartz seeks a culture editor
Quartz seeks an editor to lead its culture coverage, with bracing creativity and ambition. The editor will bring energy and curiosity to their work, deftly guiding reporters through every stage of the journalistic process. This editor will be someone who is deeply conversant with the richness and variety of global cultures, and how they interconnect […]
Quartz’s Gershgorn hired by Medium to write for its tech publication
Dave Gershgorn, the artificial intelligence reporter at Quartz, has been hired by Medium to write for its new tech publication OneZero. He has been at Quartz since August 2016. “I’ll be doubling down on AI coverage there, and I’m especially looking forward to covering where AI meets society and government,” he wrote on Twitter. Before […]
Quartz hires Palmer as science editor
Financial news site Quartz has hired Katie Palmer as its science editor. She will start next month. Palmer is currently a Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University studying how journalists can use data to power investigative reporting on scientific research. She has been a senior editor at Wired, she led coverage of science online, focusing […]
Skift hires Quartz’s Spinks to cover global tourism from London
Skift has hired Quartz reporter Rosie Spinks to cover global tourism from its London office. She will start in early June. Spinks has been a London-based lifestyle reporter for Quartz since November 2017. Prior to joining Quartz, she freelanced for six years, writing for UK and US publications including The Guardian, Vice, Quartz, NPR, Racked, […]
NY Times hires Quartz’s Pasick to run newsletters
Jodi Rudoren, associate managing editor for audience at the New York Times, sent out the following announcement on Thursday: I am delighted to welcome Adam Pasick, our new editorial director of newsletters. Adam comes to us from Quartz, where he was senior editor for newsletters and apps and, yes, helped invent the “Obsession” email. (His […]
