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 […]
Quartz hires two editorial staffers
Quartz executive editor Xana Antunes sent out the following announcement: Hello Quartz— We have some staff additions to share. Alex Ossola joins as deputy special projects editor. Alex was most recently the managing editor and former features editor at Futurism, where she ran projects on topics like quantum computing and planetary exploration. Before that, Alex […]
Quartz promotes Staley to deputy finance editor
Quartz has promoted Oliver Staley to deputy finance editor. He will report to Jason Karaian, global finance and economics editor based in London. Staley joined Quartz in early 2016 as a management reporter, after spending 10 years at Bloomberg covering a variety of beats. He joined Quartz At Work for its launch last October, serving up richly […]
Quartz hires Grobart as editor of premium journalism
Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney and executive editor Xana Antunes sent out the following announcement on Sunday: We’re happy to announce that Sam Grobart is joining Quartz in New York as editor for premium journalism. Sam starts this Monday. In this role, Sam will lead the newsroom expedition force to define the journalism that will be […]
Quartz reporter Stolzoff to cover tech’s influence on work and jobs
Quartz tech reporter Simone Stolzoff is switching beats to cover how tech relates to work and labor. Stolzoff, who is based in San Francisco, was covering automation, tech ethics, and Silicon Valley culture. He joined Quartz in June. He recently graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree in journalism. He studied feature writing and […]
Why NewsPicks bought Quartz: Original content
Satoshi Ebitani of LinkedIn interviewed Uzabase CEO and NewsPicks chairman Yusuke Umeda about its acquisition of financial news site Quartz. Here is an excerpt: Did you recently acquire Quartz to fill in a missing component, namely media for and from the US? Umeda: Yes. We had already started building a platform and a community, but we lacked the final component: […]
Quartz has launched its first paid product
Quartz is introducing its first paid subscription product called Quartz Private Key, which will provide news on cryptocurrency and blockchain twice a week for $15 a month. Readers can sign-up here. It will be delivered on Tuesdays and Fridays, and the first email will be on Wednesday, Sept. 5. Quartz Private Key is designed to be […]
Why Quartz is pushing ahead with its chatbot
Tim Peterson of Digiday writes about why business news site Quartz is continuing its chatbot while other media organizations have shut theirs down. Peterson writes, “One publisher that’s stayed committed to bots is Quartz. In 2016, it launched a mobile app through which people would primarily access its articles through an in-app chatbot. Later that year, it […]
Quartz hires De Silva as its cryptocurrency reporter
Quartz has hired Matthew De Silva as its cryptocurrency reporter. He previously was a writer at ETHNews, where he has been for the past 16 months writing about blockchain development and the cryptocurrency markets. De Silva previously worked at RotoBaller as an NBA news desk writer. He’s a graduate of Georgetown University in international economics […]
Quartz seeks a talent lab editor
Quartz seeks an editor to help us identify and develop the smartest, most creative journalistic talent around the world. As leader of Quartz’s global talent lab, you will oversee an incubator dedicated to seeking out and developing creators of quality journalism that finds a broad audience online. You will connect with smart, creative, ambitious writers, […]
