Quartz makes hires for new lifestyle site
Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement on Friday: Hello Quartz journalists— I’m happy to make some staff announcements related to the imminent launch of Quartzy. David Kaufman is joining Quartz as global lifestyle editor, based in New York, starting Nov. 20. David was most recently editor in chief of Alexa, […]
Quartz’s Lichfield named editor of MIT Tech Review
Gideon Lichfield, a senior editor at business news site Quartz, has been named editor in chief of the MIT Technology Review. He starts in early December. Lichfield will oversee all of the Review’s editorial content and products, including the website, digital newsletters, print magazine, and live events, as well as new platforms and formats under development. […]
Quartz launches lifestyle and travel site Quartzy
Business news site Quartz has launched a lifestyle and travel site called Quartzy. Chantal Fernandez of Business of Fashion writes, “Now, five years in, Quartz is expanding: last month it launched Quartz at Work, a source for ‘navigating the modern workplace,’ and on Wednesday it reveals Quartzy, a lifestyle edition focused on fashion, design, food, travel and […]
Quartz chasing quality with its videos
Kelly Liyakasa of AdExchanger interviewed Solana Pyne, Quartz’s executive video producer, about its goals with its videos. Here is an excerpt: AdExchanger: Where is Quartz Video growing? SOLANA PYNE: When we began, we were a small, three-person lab publishing directly to Facebook because that was a source of lots of traffic for us. It seemed […]
How Quartz at Work looks to reinvent business management reporting
D.B. Hubbard of Talking New Media writes about Quartz at Work, the new site from Quartz that covers business news in the workplace. Hubbard writes, “The site is about ‘being a better manager, building a career, and navigating the modern workplace,’ according to its About Us page. “Not so much as a new B2B website […]
Quartz launches site focused on work news
Quartz editors Heather Landy and Kevin Delaney write about the business news site’s new edition, called Quartz at Work. Landy and Delaney write: Quartz at Work is a guide to being a better manager, building your career, and navigating the modern workplace. It can be found directly at work.qz.com, and you’ll see aspects of the […]
Quartz believes in the advertising business model
Quartz’s co-president and editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney defended the advertising business model and discussed the pivot to video, venturing into lifestyle and more on this week’s Digiday Podcast. Aditi Sangal of Digiday writes, “‘The core of Quartz will always remain free,’ he said. ‘We’re focused on a specific segment, the business news. It’s a global audience, […]
Quartz’s iPhone app now includes augmented reality
Quartz’s iPhone app just received a big update that now includes augmented reality as a new way to cover business news. Product manager John Keefe writes, “Take this item about the Cassini spacecraft, for example. The tiny ship crashed into Saturn last week after making several important discoveries over the past 20 years. “As this […]
Quartz is starting an afternoon email called Obsession
Business news site Quartz will start offering an afternoon email called Obsession, a complement to its Daily Brief, which was widely recognized for reinvigorating the email newsletter form almost five years ago. This new email dives each day into a single topic with which Quartz is obsessed with and thinks you should be, too. It’s […]
Quartz now has 22 million monthly unique visitors
Business news site Quartz, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary, has grown to 22 million monthly unique visitors, writes editor in chief Kevin Delaney. Delaney writes, “When we launched Quartz, on Sept. 24, 2012, the world was just emerging from a financial crisis that made clear traditional ways of doing business would no longer stand. We […]
