Quartz senior reporter Fernholz departs
Tim Fernholz, a senior reporter covering space, economics and politics at Quartz, has left. He wrote on X/Twitter: “I’m no longer employed at Quartz after last week’s G/O layoffs. It’s a shame to leave after more than a decade, but new horizons beckon. Before returning to the reporting grind, I’ll work on a book and […]
FT’s Fund Fire hires DiCamillo to cover wealth management
Fund Fire, a publication of The Financial Times, has hired Nate DiCamillo as a senior reporter covering wealth management. He had been at Quartz covering the economy. DiCamillo previously was a CoinDesk reporter on its institutional crytpo and enterprise blockchain team. He had been a fintech reporter at American Banker since April 2018. He also formerly was a […]
Nover departing Quartz for Slate
Quartz tech reporter Scott Nover is leaving the website to cover media and technology for Slate. He has been at Quartz since May 2021. Previously, Nover was a platforms reporter at Adweek. He was also a freelance magazine writer at The Washington Post. He has also worked as an editorial fellow, AtlanticLIVE and a freelance reporter at The Atlantic. […]
Quartz senior reporter Werber departs
Cassie Werber, a senior reporter at Quartz, has left. She wrote on X/Twitter: “I’ll miss a lot of things about my job and workplace, and right at the top of that list is working alongside clever, kind people every day. Thank you Quartz and my colleagues: You changed my life.” Werber had been with Quartz […]
Former Quartz EIC Seward on diversifying a newsroom
Zach Seward, the former editor in chief and CEO of financial news site Quartz, writes about the strategies it used to improve newsroom diversity. Seward writes, “Employees of color grew to half of the newsroom and 42% of the whole company, up from 31% in mid-2020. We still had pretty homogenous leadership and failed in […]
Quartz seeks an editor in chief
G/O Media is currently looking for an Editor-in-Chief to lead and grow Quartz, one of the Internet’s most widely respected business news websites. The ideal candidate is a strong leader with extensive editing and reporting experience and a deep understanding of both the Quartz unique editorial voice and its role in the national and international […]
Parent of Quartz, Gizmodo to begin testing artificial intelligence
G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown told the staff of the company, which includes tech news site Gizmodo and financial news site Quartz, that it will begin testing AI-produced stories. Brown writes: Editorial team, I am writing to advice you of a new context feature that will be added into the mix at G/O publications. […]
STAT News hires Merelli as a reporter
STAT News has hired Quartz reporter Annalisa Merelli as a general assignment reporter. She has been at Quartz for nine years, starting as a reporter on the Ideas team. She also covered COVID-19 with a focus on its impact on inequality, ongoing health crises, and the healthcare industry Merelli also Introduced coverage of women’s rights, public health, […]
Quartz editor in chief Seward departing after 11 years
Zach Seward, the editor in chief of the financial news site Quartz, is leaving after 11 years. Seward writes, “Most importantly, as a formal search for our next editor-in-chief gets underway, Heather Landy will continue leading the newsroom, as she did from 2014 to 2016 and again for most of this year. You are working […]
After dropping paywall, Quartz readership declined
Business news site Quartz saw its readership decline after dropping its paywall a year ago, reports Mark Stenberg of Adweek. Stenberg writes, “But since ungating its content, site readership has dropped from an average of 3 million visitors per month in 2022 to 1.3 million visitors per month between January and March of this year, according […]
