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 […]
Quartz launches obsession on propaganda
Financial news site Quartz will launch a new obsession on propaganda on Saturday. Instead of describing the world in terms of a set of fixed subject-matter categories, such as the “beats” at traditional newspapers, Quartz see it as a collection of evolving phenomena. It calls those obsessions, and they include things such as the future […]
Quartz seeks tech reporter in San Francisco
Quartz seeks a reporter to contribute to its coverage of the technology sector globally, with a focus on producing original takes on the news, reported scoops, and informed analysis. Based in San Francisco or the greater Bay Area, you would be part of the growing Quartz team worldwide, and help shape our efforts to take […]
LeVine leaves Quartz for Axios to cover future of work
Steve LeVine, who has been Quartz’s Washington correspondent, has left the business news organization to become future editor at Axios. LeVine will be running a new vertical on the Future of Work, with a new weekly newsletter and a daily news stream around AI/Robotics, jobs and the social and geopolitical ramifications. It is launching next […]
Quartz hires Bloomberg’s Detrixhe
Jason Karaian, global finance and economics editor at Quartz, sent out the following announcement on Monday: Hello Quartz, I’m happy to announce that John Detrixhe is joining the editorial team as Future of Finance reporter. He will expand our coverage of innovation in trading, payments, banking, and everything to do with how we manage money. […]
Quartz covers happiness as a business and economic topic
Business news site Quartz unveiled a series of stories Tuesday that examines happiness from the perspective of economics, finance, philosophy, and psychology. The Happiness Experiment is sponsored by Prudential. Quartz reporters go beyond the platitudes and quick fixes to understand humans’ unique preoccupation. Stories include an in-depth study of what 6,000 Wikipedia edits teach us […]
Quartz promotes WIlliams to director of the workshop
Zach Seward, senior vice president of product and executive editor at Quartz, sent out the following announcement to the staff: Hi, all. Sam Williams is now director of the workshop. It’s a new position that codifies and expands the role he has played unofficially for a while now, and it’s a well-deserved promotion after nearly five […]
Quartz seeks editor to lead expansion of management coverage
Quartz seeks an editor to lead the expansion of its management coverage, taking an entrepreneurial approach to defining our journalism in this area and working with several reporters and outside contributors focused on it. The mandate is to identify the most interesting ideas and approaches to business and management and present them in fresh ways […]
How Quartz uses editorial and technology for advertisers
Max Willens of Digiday writes about the Quartz Index, which was relaunched Tuesday and uses editorial content and technology to produce card-style stories about statistics and data from the global economy. Willens writes, “So today, in place of static indicators, there are 12 stories that cover a variety of economic indicators, like one on cryptocurrency or the number […]
Quartz hires two for editorial team
Quartz’s editor in chief Kevin Delaney announced Monday two new hires to Quartz’s editorial team in the United States. They are: Emily Withrow joins Quartz as Bot Studio editor, based in Chicago. Withrow will work with the existing mobile and Bot Studio team to help identify how bots can help Quartz staffers and readers. She […]
