Quartz hires video journalist, health and finance reporter
Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following staff announcement: Hello Quartz – I’m happy to announce two new journalists starting with us on Tuesday. Hannah Yi is joining Quartz as a video journalist. Hannah will lead short-form video coverage, with a mandate to keep experimenting with native Facebook video. Hannah comes to […]
Quartz seeks breaking news reporter
Quartz is looking for an experienced journalist to work on the ground-breaking, award-winning Quartz for iPhone app as a writer and editor. The successful candidate will relish the challenge of covering major global news stories in real time, and writing about them with voice and verve. This journalist will have stellar news judgement, and superb […]
Quartz seeks reporter to cover the future of finance
Quartz seeks a reporter to cover the future of finance globally, spanning a broad range of finance and technology topics. You would be part of the growing Quartz team based in New York, and help shape our efforts to take bracingly creative approaches to covering business and finance news. This position would focus on the […]
Why Quartz eschews banner ads
Brian Morrissey of Digiday interviewed Quartz publisher Jay Lauf about the financial news site. Morrissey said, “As an ad-dependent publication, Quartz faces the same tough market as other publishers. Lauf said the Quartz founding team, which included now Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith and Lauf’s co-president and editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney, recognized this and crafted a […]
Quartz stories: Smart but approachable
Financial news site Quartz aims for content that is smart but approachable, said its managing editor on Wednesday. “That’s a really powerful way to tell a story,” said Heather Landy in a conversation in Quartz’s new offices in New York. She gave two examples of such content. The first was a story from May about changes […]
How Quartz’s special projects bring in revenue while maintaining integrity
Lauren Brown is the special projects editor for Quartz. She helps shapes editorial strategy, works on editorial products, and oversees the development special editorial projects. Previously, Brown was Quartz’s deputy ideas editor. Before that, she was the contributors editor at Business Insider where she oversaw all contributors and syndication partnerships and was responsible for an overhaul […]
Quartz set to hit $30 million in revenue this year
Financial news site Quartz is set to hit $30 million in revenue in 2016, up from $18.6 million last year, reports Jeremy Barr of Ad Age. Barr writes, “Quartz is on pace to bring in more than $30 million in revenue this year, having already booked $25 million, the person said. It is selling high-polish display ads […]
Quartz launches index on the economy
Business and financial news site Quartz has started an index tracking the global economy. The index is designed to complement traditional economic indicators. It will use indicators that together tell the story of not just which direction the economy is headed, but how it’s getting there. Quartz Index is a collection of eight numerical indicators, […]
Quartz seeks cities reporter in New York
Quartz seeks a reporter to cover a key force shaping the global economy: its great cities. You would be part of the growing Quartz team, and help shape our efforts to take bracingly creative approaches to covering business news. You will view the world’s cities as unique laboratories, and the flow of people, capital and […]
Quartz seeks global consumer reporter in New York
Quartz seeks a reporter to lead its coverage of the global consumer. You would be part of the growing Quartz team, and help shape our efforts to take bracingly creative approaches to covering business news. You will view the technological transformation of retail and changes in consumer behavior globally as an endless source of story […]
