Quartz seeks lifestyle reporter
Quartz, the business news website from The Atlantic, is seeking a full-time Lifestyle Reporter to define and execute a framework for lifestyle coverage that is smart, creative, digital, and global, and implementing it on a daily basis. The position involves daily writing, and potentially some editing of freelance and staff contributors. Key to success in […]
Quartz is now growing its international audience
Abigail Edge of Journalism.co.uk writes about how Quartz, the business news site from The Atlantic, is aiming to increase its international readership. Edge writes, “Another key area for Quartz in 2014 is continuing to grow its readership outside of the US. “Forty per cent of traffic came from outside of the US in January, said […]
Quartz tops 5 million visitors in January
Quartz, the business news site launched in 2012 by The Atlantic, passed 5 million unique visitors in January. It had 1.8 million unique visitors as recently as October. In addition, Quartz is tracking to be up more than 400 percent this quarter compared to the same quarter last year in terms of advertising revenue. During […]
Business Insider reporter joins Quartz
Max Nisen, a business reporter at Business Insider, has been hired at Quartz, the Atlantic’s business news site. Nisen will take on the management beat, covering CEOs, executive changes, workplace culture, hiring practices and interesting companies. He covered corporate management and strategy at Business Insider as well. Prior to Business Insider, Nisen worked for Al […]
Quartz daily email surpasses 50,000 subscribers
The Quartz Daily Brief, a morning news email for “smart, busy people” from The Atlantic’s business news site, has just surpassed 50,000 subscribers. Quartz’s reporters cull information from the world’s news sources to write a roundup of the most important, interesting things happening globally. The Daily Brief is written and edited by several Quartz journalists, […]
The never-ending business news content
Jack Marshall of Digiday looks at how some online business news publishers such as Yahoo Tech and Quartz are leading a change in how content is being presented. Marshall writes, “Look no farther than Yahoo’s new food and tech sites. The sites present users with an infinite list of image tiles and headlines which, after […]
Quartz hires DeCambre from NY Post
Mark DeCambre, a business reporter at the New York Post, has been hired by the Quartz business news site. DeCambre will be covering banks, hedge funds and other global finance firms. At the New York Post, he most recently served as the Wall Street reporter. DeCambre will be based in New York. Last year, DeCambre […]
Delaney is Talking Biz News business journalist of 2013
Kevin Delaney has shown the world that quality business journalism available for free on the Internet does have a strong future. As the editor in chief of Quartz, a business news site started in 2012 by The Atlantic, Delaney has built one of the fastest-growing news sites on the web, and he’s done it by […]
Business news as an email newsletter
Frederic Filloux of MondayNote.com examines how some business news organizations are sending the latest news to your inbox. Filloux writes, “Again, I’ll refer to Quartz, the business site launched a year ago by the Atlantic Media Group (see a previous Monday Note series here). Their email newsletter is called ‘The Daily Brief’; it is 800-words […]
Breathing life into digital business media
Josh Sternberg of Digiday profiles Kevin Delaney, the former Wall Street Journal journalist now running Quartz, the Atlantic’s business news site. Sternberg writes, “With Quartz, he’s hacked the very notion of what an online magazine can do. With concise stories and attention-grabbing headlines, Quartz has been mobile-friendly from day one, yielding both impressive traffic and kudos […]
