Quartz learns to love the homepage
Lucinda Southern of Digiday writes about how business news site Quartz is paying more attention to its homepage. Southern writes, “But with Quartz’s 60-strong global editorial team pushing out 50 to 60 pieces a day, the 3-year-old site wants to make more of its content visible, with more links and ways for readers to move around the site, according […]
Quartz seeks management reporter
Quartz is seeking a management reporter at its Union Square headquarters in New York City. This reporter will help create a framework that defines Quartz’s management coverage. The strategy will include a range of creative, digital, global approaches that makes it easy to write both brief, insightful posts about the latest management shakeup and features […]
Quartz racks up 45 million video views in six months
Lucia Moses of Digiday writes about business news site Quartz and its video strategy. Moses writes, “Six months ago, Quartz hired a three-person video team and began publishing videos that would live on Facebook and YouTube but not on its own website. The 3-year-old Atlantic Media business news site has embraced experimentation from the get-go, […]
CNNMoney, Quartz, TheStreet and WSJ up for best biz website
Editor and Publisher has released the finalists for the 2015 Eppy Awards, which recognize the best in online journalism. Best Business/Finance Website with 1 million unique monthly visitors and over CNN Money – CNN qz.com – Quartz TheStreet.com – The Street The Wall Street Journal – Dow Jones and Co.Best Business/Finance Website with under 1 […]
Quartz debuts new kind of video advertising
Quartz unveiled Monday a custom-built video ad unit but promised it will not be running any pre-roll. In an email to the staff, executive editor and vice president of product Zach Seward and director of marketing and revenue products Mia Mabanta explained: Make sure to check out this piece about cultural appropriation in fashion that published today. […]
Banjo, Nisen leaving Quartz for Bloomberg
Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement on Monday: I’m sad to share the news that Max Nisen and Shelly Banjo will be leaving Quartz, with their last days next Thursday. They both are going to Bloomberg. Max and Shelly have distinguished themselves during their time at Quartz not only for […]
Bloomberg News hires reporter, editor for Gadfly
Bloomberg News has hired a reporter — Shira Ovide from The Wall Street Journal — to work on its Bloomberg Gadfly commentary service starting later this fall. Ovide has been at the paper’s San Francisco bureau covering Microsoft and other business software firms. Previously, Ovide was the lead writer for a Journal blog then called […]
Quartz sets traffic record in September
Quartz publisher Jay Lauf and editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following to the staff on Thursday: Fellow Quartzians, As we close out the third quarter and mark our third anniversary, we wanted to commend everyone on the achievement of three (see a pattern?) particularly important numerical markers. Many other impressive stats were […]
Quartz, WSJ win Online Journalism Awards
Business news site Quartz and The Wall Street Journal were among the winners of the annual Online Journalism Awards, which were announced Sunday. Quartz won in the General Excellence in Online Journalism, medium category. Quartz also won in the Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, medium category for Space Business. The Journal won in he Excellence and […]
Quartz celebrates third birthday
Editor in chief Kevin Delaney writes about what business news site Quartz has accomplished since it was launched three years ago. Delaney writes, “Three years on, thanks to your readership, Quartz is thriving. We have served 580 million pages to 173 million visitors on qz.com, and this month the website will see its largest audience […]
