Quartz names second professional in residence
Lisa Shalett has been Quartz’s professional in residence, the second person to hold that position. Shalett is a former Goldman Sachs partner and global head of Brand Marketing & Digital Strategy, in which she managed Goldman’s brand during the financial crisis. The Quartz in Residence program, which first launched as an experiment in September 2016 […]
How Quartz is looking for revenue opportunities
Lucinda Southern of Digiday looks at how Quartz is expanding its revenue opportunities. Southern writes, “Quartz is a defender of the ad-supported model but will be launching a paid-for product in the next couple of months. Exactly how this will look, whether it’s a regular subscription or one-off products, is still to be determined, but it will […]
Quartz cancels tech conference, lays off three
Business news site Quartz is discontinuing its flagship Next Billion conference series, which it started in 2013, and laying off three employees who worked in that side of the business, reports Peter Kafka of Recode. Kafka writes, “Quartz Editor in Chief Kevin Delaney says the company, which was reportedly on track to do $30 million last year, […]
Quartz is working on a subscription product
Quartz is developing a subscription product, reports Peter Kafka or Recode. Kafka writes, “Delaney won’t go into details about what that product is, how much it will cost or when it will launch. But Quartz has given a hint by announcing the purchase of Intelligentsia.ai, a small research firm that specialized in artificial intelligence. “Quartz says founders […]
Quartz’s focus on the global business professional
Jack Marshall of The Wall Street Journal interviewed Quartz publisher Jay Lauf about its strategy. Marshall writes, “As a result, Quartz decided to shun standardized banner ads and to avoid selling its ad space through intermediaries, opting instead to sell custom ad formats and sponsored content directly to marketers and their agencies. “Another benefit of […]
Quartz hires its first environmental reporter
Zoe Schlanger has joined Quartz as an environmental reporter, based in New York. She will have a special focus on developing coverage of climate change and environmental policy. Her reporting will be included in Quartz obsessions such as “Energy Shocks” and “The Sea” as the first environmental reporter at Quartz. Schlanger was previously a senior reporter at Newsweek, where […]
Why a Quartz reporter is suing the government for immigration data
David Yanofsky, a reporter at Quartz, writes about his lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce asking a judge to compel the release of two databases that chronicle the flow of people into the United States. Yanofsky writes, “My lawsuit concerns two databases maintained by the ITA: One contains anonymous immigrations records; the other, statistics […]
The biz writer who covers philosophy and psychology
Olivia Goldhill, a writer for the financial news site Quartz, is one of just a handful of journalists — business or otherwise — in the United States who writes on philosophy and psychology. Recently, Goldhill has written about whether driverless cars should kill their own passengers to save a pedestrian, interviewed the Oxford philosopher who gave Elon Musk the […]
Quartz adds three editorial staffers
Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement on Monday: Hello Quartz— I’m happy to announce three new members of our editorial team. April Siese joins Quartz today as an app writer, based in New Orleans. She will have a special focus on developing our weekend app writing. April comes to us from the […]
How Quartz is tinkering with new technology
Shan Wang of the Nieman Lab writes about the Quartz Bot Studio, which the financial news site is using to develop new bots for messaging platforms such as Slack and voice interfaces such as Amazon Echo or Google Home. Wang writes, “Quartz has already made significant headway in bot experimentation. In February, it debuted a […]
