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 […]
Quartz launching new initiatives, seeking more ad dollars
Business news site Quartz is publishing its first print book, launching new management and lifestyle brands, and adding a second daily email newsletter in a bid to capture more advertising revenue, reports Shannon Bond of the Financial Times. Bond writes, “For its print debut — a book titled The Objects that Power the Global Economy that goes on […]
Quartz has created a bot that can break news
Financial news site Quartz has created a bot that can break news, reports Ricardo Bilton of the Nieman Lab. Bilton writes, “At the Online News Association conference next month, Quartz plans to unveil a suite of Slack-based tools designed to simplify the process of creating bots to follow certain pages or data. With the tool, a local […]
Quartz to produce video series on global economy for Facebook Watch
Business news site Quartz is producing a video show for the new Facebook Watch on the global economy. The shows will follow compelling characters and groundbreaking science shaping the future of the global economy. The Quartz videos will follow people living and working with robots, and scientists exploring some of the most unknown parts of the […]
The Quartz Innovation Lab has produced results
Max Willens of Digiday writes about the success of the Quartz Innovation Lab at the financial news site. Willens writes, “To formalize this approach, Quartz launched the Quartz Innovation Lab in January, where creative staffers spend a certain portion of their time working on projects like this about every six weeks. “The results have helped the creative services […]
Quartz hires Brinded as European news editor
Quartz’s editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement on Thursday: I’m happy to announce that Lianna Brinded is joining Quartz as Europe News Editor starting July 26, based in London, where she will spearhead coverage of European events, and work closely with the team there to grow our European readership. Lianna was most recently […]
Quartz launches future of work obsession
Business news site Quartz is now covering the future of work as one of its “obsessions,” or beats. Editor in chief Kevin Delaney writes, “To get a sense of how we’ll approach the future of work, you can look to some of our distinctive coverage on the issue to date. There’s the impact of AI and automation: […]
Quartz’s Seward on what makes something Quartz-y
Zach Seward, senior vice president of product and executive editor at financial news site Quartz, was named a Digiday Changemaker and was interviewed by Max Willens. Here is an excerpt: A lot of the things Quartz has put out there feel very unified. They feel Quartz-y. What makes something Quartz-y? There’s some immutable values we have. […]
Quartz makes three new editorial hires
Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney announced three new editorial hires on Friday morning: Youyou Zhou is joining the Things team as a visual journalist based in New York, starting May 30. Youyou (pronounced Yo-yo) previously worked at the Associated Press, where she was an interactive news producer with award-winning interactive stories covering the 2016 […]
