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 […]
A Quartz reporter who also writes his own code
Jon Keegan of Columbia Journalism Review interviewed Quartz reporter David Yanofsky, who codes to use data visualization and graphics to help tell stories. Here is an excerpt: What’s your favorite kind of challenge in a story? I like finding sources of information that are seemingly under-utilized by people in journalism. With stream gauges, if there was a […]
Quartz reporter creates bot tracking hacking payments
Quartz tech reporter Keith Collins created a bot that users can follow on Twitter at @actual_ransom to see all the Bitcoin payments the WannaCry ransomware victims have sent in hopes to regain access to their files. The Twitter bot watches each of the three wallets and tweets every time they receive new payments. Collins also created a […]
