Rest of World hires Punit as South Asia editor
Rest of World has tapped Itika Sharma Punit as South Asia editor, helping to build coverage on how technology intersects with the lives of people in the world’s most populous region. For the past 6 years, Punit has been with Quartz, where she has worked as a writer, tech editor for India, co-editor for India […]
Morning Consult hires Epstein as a senior editor
Morning Consult has hired Adam Epstein as a senior editor in charge of its Brands, Sports and Entertainment verticals, based in New York. Adam was most recently the entertainment reporter at Quartz, where he won a SABEW Best in Business award for his field guide, “How to Save TV Ads from Extinction.” He worked at […]
Quartz membership hits 27,000, up 71 percent
Quartz has 27,000 members and its membership base increased by 71% year-over-year, reports Sara Guaglione of Digiday. Guaglione writes, “Quartz is making changes to its three-year-old subscription program, with a new focus on its email newsletters after the publisher found its paying subscribers, or “members,” were driven to most of Quartz’s content via their inbox. Quartz sees […]
Washington Post hires Quartz reporter Timsit
Washington Post foreign editor Douglas Jehl, deputy foreign editor Eva Rodriguez and London hub editor Sara Sorcher sent out the following announcement: We’re very pleased to announce that Annabelle Timsit will join The Post as a breaking-news reporter at our new hub in London. She will be part of a team that will play a […]
Quartz doubles down on email newsletters for members
Financial news site Quartz is adding four emails to its strategy for members. Editor in chief Katharine Bell writes, “We’re putting weekly emails at the center of membership, starting with these four: The Forecast: a short, sharp look forward at an emerging industry, technology, or trend The Company: context on the companies changing (or about to change) the way other […]
Quartz seeks an entertainment and media industry reporter
Quartz seeks an entertainment and media industry reporter obsessed with the past, present, and future of television, film, music, and live entertainment. The successful candidate will understand media and entertainment is both a business and a passion. They’ll be able to read earnings statements, analyze deals, and spot the financial forces behind streaming, but they’ll […]
Quartz union ratifies first contract
The Quartz union has ratified their first contract with management that sets a salary floor of $63,000 and includes a general wage increase, a ratification bonus, and just cause protections as well as a ban on non-disclosure agreements for situations involving harassment. Diversity and inclusion provisions include a joint labor-management diversity and inclusion committee that […]
Quartz’s Bell on business journalism: Interest of readers is paramount
Mark Sternberg of Adweek interviewed Quartz editor in chief Katherine Bell about business journalism. Here is an excerpt: Business journalism doesn’t happen in a vacuum. If you write a critical article about a company, they are far less likely to send you their next exclusive. How do you balance maintaining healthy relationships with sources, while still trying to […]
What Quartz learned from operating a hybrid office
Zach Seward, the CEO of financial news site Quartz, writes about what it learned from operating a hybrid office the past month. Seward writes, “In the shift to hybrid work, much has been made of the unspoken advantages of face-to-face time with your boss and the risk of neglecting employees who are rarely seen in […]
How to think about business stories in a non-traditional way
Michelle Cheng of Quartz writes about how to think about business stories in non-traditional ways, from uncovering stories about underrepresented communities to exploring social inequities. Cheng writes, “The panelists included Samanth Subramanian, Quartz’s future of capitalism reporter, Esmé E. Deprez, a senior investigative reporter at Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek, and Eshe Nelson, a business […]
