Quartz reporter Backman leaves for New Yorker
Melvin Backman, a reporter at Quartz, has left the financial news site to become a fact checker at The New Yorker. Backman had joined Quartz in November 2014 as part of its finance and markets reporting team. He previously had been at CNN Money where he covered a wide range of financial and corporate news. Prior […]
Quartz hires Bindrim to run talent lab
Quartz editor of new initiatives Xana Antunes sent out the following announcement on Monday: Dear Quartz, I’m happy to announce that Kira Bindrim, the managing editor of Newsweek, is joining Quartz as editor of our new talent lab, starting May 9th. At Newsweek, Kira was responsible for building a new staff, relaunching the website, and steering the magazine’s return to […]
Quartz judged SND World’s Best
Financial news site Quartz has been judged a winner of the Society of News Design’s World’s Best award. The judges wrote, “Quartz exemplifies what a medium-sized news organization can achieve. The low-key ambition here is admirable and creates a frictionless experience. “The content and delivery inside this narrow business vertical are superb — and the […]
Quartz hires Things editor
Quartz executive editor Zach Seward sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: We are excited to announce that Sarah Slobin will be joining us as Things editor, overseeing the newsroom team in charge of data-driven, visual, and otherwise creative journalism. She’ll start on May 2 and report to me. Sarah brings to us deep and […]
How Quartz went from zero to 200 million video views
Lucinda Southern of Digiday writes about how Quartz went from zero video views to 200 million video views in 10 months. Southern writes, “For 10 months, Quartz’s three-person video-only team has been experimenting with what works on video. It has nearly reached 200 million views across platforms, according to Delaney (four months ago, Digiday reported Quartz met the […]
Quartz hires Coren to cover tech
Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement to the staff on Friday: I’m happy to announce that Michael Coren is joining Quartz as a reporter covering technology from our San Francisco bureau, starting March 21. He will focus on the people and business landscape of Silicon Valley companies large and small—including startups and […]
Quartz editor: 53 percent of people get biz news from phone
Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney spoke at Southern Methodist University earlier this week, and Christina Cox of The Daily Campus covered his comments. Cox wrote, “Through surveys, Delaney and his team found that 53 percent of people get their business news from their phones, reflecting a national trend in a change in news consumption. […]
Quartz seeks travel reporter
Quartz seeks a reporter to cover travel globally, with a focus that includes the airline industry and hotels, aerospace technology, travel hacks, adventure travel, business travel, and consumer technology used by travelers. We’re looking for someone with a deeply nerdy interest in air travel especially, who can spot interesting and unexpected developments in the airline […]
Quartz app is a conversational interface
Politico Media talked with the Quartz team that developed its new iPhone application. Here is an excerpt: POLITICO: Have you considered integrating the app with real messaging apps, such as Slack or Facebook Messenger? ADAM PASICK, BREAKING NEWS EDITOR: We’ve always seen the iPhone app as just the first step. The great thing about a […]
Quartz launches app for iPhone
Zach Seward of Quartz writes about the business news site’s application for iPhones. Seward writes, “The app, exclusive to iPhone, is a whole new way to experience Quartz. We put aside existing notions about news apps and imagined what our journalism would be if it lived natively on your iPhone. It wouldn’t be a facsimile […]
