Memo from Quartz leaders to staff on its sale
The following memo is from Quartz co-presidents Kevin Delaney and Jay Lauf to its staff: Hello Quartz— We created Quartz for people excited by change, and have focused our journalism on the future of industries and economies. Today we’re unveiling some change for Quartz itself, with a sharper vision of our future and a bet on […]
Quartz is being sold to a Japanese company for at least $75 million
Japanese company Uzabase announced Monday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Quartz, the business news outlet created and owned by Atlantic Media, as part of an expansion into the United States. The deal values Quartz between $75 million and $110 million depending on achievement of future financial and operating performance in 2018. As […]
Quartz hires Stolzoff to cover tech in San Francisco
Quartz has hired Simone Stolzoff as a tech reporter in San Francisco. He started this week. Stolzoff will cover automation, tech ethics, and Silicon Valley culture. He recently graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree in journalism. He studied feature writing and multimedia storytelling. Stolzoff is a native of San Francisco. He has written […]
Quartz’s crypto reporter leaves for CoinDesk
Joon Ian Wong, who covered cryptocurrencies for Quartz, has left the business news site for a job at CoinDesk. Wong is now managing director for Europe and Asia for CoinDesk, expanding its events business and figuring out ways to educate and inform the influx of people to crypto, building on CoinDesk’s independent reporting and data services. […]
Quartz is launching global economy show on Facebook Watch
Business news site Quartz is about to launch a show called “Quartz News” on the global economy on Facebook Watch. The weekly show, which will launch in mid July, will focus on a single news event or issue driving the global conversation. The goal is to serve as a smart radar on the news, helping […]
Quartz seeks a cryptocurrencies reporter
Quartz seeks a reporter to cover cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and the decentralized web. You would be part of the growing Quartz team around the world, and help shape our efforts to take bracingly creative approaches to covering business and finance news. We are looking for journalists with professional reporting experience, facility with data, an entrepreneurial […]
Murphy promoted to deputy tech editor at Quartz
Quartz executive editor Xana Antunes sent out the following announcement internally Tuesday morning: Mike Murphy has been promoted to deputy tech editor, effective immediately. Mike has taken a path that we’re particularly proud of. He joined Quartz as an intern nearly four years ago and has grown into one of our strongest and most prolific […]
Quartz hires four new editorial staffers
Financial news site Quartz has hired four new editorial staffers. Annabelle Timsit has joined Quartz as a reporter, focused on our science of learning obsession. Annabelle joins us from the Atlantic, where she participated in its fellowship program and wrote stories on topics ranging from Japan’s overhaul of its university admissions system to the push […]
How Quartz started the email newsletter revolution
JR Raphael of Fast Company writes about email newsletters revolutionizing publishing and focuses on business news site Quartz. Raphael writes, “Just across the internet, the business publication Quartz is widely credited with helping to ‘reinvent’ the email newsletter, moving beyond mere collections of links to provide a distinct voice, format, and style crafted specifically for that […]
Quartz’s Wang to join Rolling Stone to cover music business
Quartz reporter Amy X. Wang is leaving the financial news website to join Rolling Stone magazine as its music business reporter. Wang joined Quartz in September 2015 from Slate, where she was an intern. She covered business of creativity and the future of work — with particularly keen interests in the psychology of music, genre […]
