The chicken, the egg and the Quartz home page

Joseph Lichterman of the Nieman Journalism Lab writes about the Quartz redesign that includes a home page for the first time. Lichterman writes, “Pre-redesign, 90 percent of visitors to Quartz’s website arrived through article pages, with just 10 percent coming through the qz.com front door. Part of that is Quartz’s focus on social distribution of […]

Assessing the biz news site redesigns

Ricardo Bilton of Digiday looks at how some business news sites — Quartz, Fortune and Bloomberg — redesigned themselves to be more appealing. On Quartz, Bilton writes, “Qz.com is now home to The Brief, a summarized list of top stories from not only Quartz itself but other news sites as well. It’s a significant departure from […]

Quartz unveils new site, and first home page

Zach Seward of Quartz writes about the new design for the financial news website: Yes, the homepage is still dead, which is why our new front door is quite different from most. Now, when you come to qz.com, we are offering an efficient briefing on global business news, called the Brief. It’s intended to be read straight through, like […]

Zakaria joining Quartz as contributing editor

Fareed Zakaria, the internationally renowned journalist, will join the Quartz business news site as a contributing editor, starting in September. As part of this new relationship, he will write for The Atlantic as well as participate in events for Quartz, Atlantic Media’s global business news brand. His first outing will be with Quartz’s flagship The […]

Quartz hires deputy news editor

Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following staff hire announcement on Thursday: Indrani Sen is joining our staff as a deputy news editor, having served in that role on an interim basis during Roya’s maternity leave. Indrani has been a great presence in our newsroom, and a skilled and hardworking editor since her arrival […]

American Banker editor Landy leaving for Quartz

Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement on Thursday: Heather Landy starts Monday as Quartz’s global news editor, joining us from American Banker Magazine, where she is editor in chief. Heather is a leading business journalist, having won one of the field’s highest honors, a Gerald Loeb award, for her reporting on the […]

A chat with Quartz’s new managing editor

Aby Sam Thomas of The Aerogram interviewed new Quartz managing editor Bobby Ghosh about his new job and why he left Time magazine. Here is an excerpt: First off — why did you make the move to Quartz from Time? Also, what is going to be your strategy for your role as managing editor of […]

Noted news designer says Quartz Daily adds texture to news day

Mario Garcia, perhaps the most famous designer of news products in the last 30 years, writes about his fondness for the Quartz Daily brief. Garcia writes, “The invitation came via an email: would you like to get a Quartz Daily Brief?  Why not, said I.  I already get several briefings, but there is always room […]

Quartz aims for profitability

Roger Yu of USA Today writes about Quartz, the business news website from The Atlantic. Yu writes, “Quartz’s challenges include amassing more stories, as well as more readers and advertisers (it has about 60 of the latter). The site doesn’t post enough content to sustain a long-term business, says Ken Doctor, a news industry analyst […]

What’s so great about Quartz?

Ben Davis of Econsultancy.com writes about the things that make business news site Quartz so good. Here are two: Quality of writing Fundamental to Quartz is the quality of its journalism. That’s what defines the publisher to its users, and that’s what matters most. It’s the basis of readership and ultimately, in time, advertising revenue. […]