CNN hires Hu from Quartz
Caitlin Hu is joining CNN Digital International as a senior editor based in New York. In her role she will be commissioning, coordinating and driving international coverage across CNN Digital platforms. She will work closely with CNN International leadership and news gathering teams in Atlanta and beyond, and across the digital portfolio. The role covers a crucial time […]
Quartz seeks a deputy ideas editor
Quartz seeks an editor to help develop its Ideas coverage for readers, taking an entrepreneurial approach to defining our journalism in this area. Ideas is our catchall word for, well, ideas, and is the part of the newsroom chiefly responsible for bringing outside voices to Quartz. We look to Ideas to obsess over the issues […]
Quartz seeks a deputy editor for membership
Quartz seeks an editor to help develop the premium content it offers its members, taking an entrepreneurial approach to defining our journalism in this area and working with reporters focused on it. The mandate is to identify creative and compelling editorial approaches for paying readers, and to take an experimental approach to developing them, as […]
Quartz has hired a general counsel
Quartz co-chief executive officers Kevin Delaney and Jay Lauf sent out the following announcement on Friday: Hello Quartz – We’re happy to announce that Ava Lubell is joining Quartz as general counsel and director of corporate operations, working in our NYC headquarters starting on Dec. 17. In this role, Ava will be responsible for directing […]
Hu is leaving Quartz for CNN International
Caitlin Hu is leaving Quartz to join CNN International as a New York-based digital senior editor. She will start at CNN in January. Hu started her career at Quartz four years ago with a story that tracked a refugee’s two-year odyssey from Syria to Europe and back again. She subsequently came on staff as an […]
Quartz is looking to use computers more in reporting
Quartz is looking to incorporate computers more in the reporting of those articles, reports Tim Peterson of Digiday. Peterson writes, “Quartz has formed the Quartz AI Studio to produce articles that use machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence that trains computers to identify patterns and anomalies and otherwise analyze data, to assist in the […]
Quartz is hoping to build a community with its membership plan
Quartz is hoping to build a community around a new membership program that includes events, exclusive content and regular conference calls with Quartz staffers, reports Max Willens of Digiday. Willens writes, “The membership is built around a mixture of content and community features including weekly, in-depth reports on hot-button business ideas called field guides, the […]
Quartz is launching subscription membership service, new app
Quartz is launching a subscription tier for its business coverage and a new app that will offer aggregated news and user discussion with the aim of avoiding the negativity that plagues debate on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, reports Matthew Garrahan of the Financial Times. Garrahan writes, “The new services are the digital […]
Quartz names new entrepreneur in residence
Quartz publisher and co-CEO Jay Lauf sent out the following announcement: We’d like to welcome Guilhem Tamisier who starts today as Quartz’s fourth entrepreneur in residence based in New York. Guilhem is a creative strategist with more than twenty years of international experience in communication planning. He has worked at major agencies in Paris, Singapore, […]
Quartz starts podcast on changing careers
Financial news site Quartz has started a weekly podcast called “FWD: Thinking” on how people have changed careers. A new episode will be released each Tuesday. The podcast is hosted by Khe Hy, Quartz’s first entrepreneur in residence and one of the founding editors at Quartz At Work, which focuses on management, workplace, and career […]
