Charter hires Nazeer as managing editor

Charter, a new operation covering the workplace, has hired Cari Nazeer to be its managing editor.

She will start next week and focus on digging into how to make the future of work better and more equitable.

Nazeer has been the content lead at Medium for Self and has been at Medium since September 2018.

She previously was an associate editor at New York Magazine for science coverage and an assistant editor at The Atlantic for health coverage.

Nazeer is a Northwestern University and Columbia University graduate.

Charter was started by former Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney and publisher Jay Lauf, as well as Erin Grau, who is the chief operating officer. Prior to Charter, Grau was the first vice president of transformation at The New York Times.

Charter currently has an email newsletter and a content sharing agreement with Time magazine.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.