Hu is leaving Quartz for CNN International

Caitlin Hu is leaving Quartz to join CNN International as a New York-based digital senior editor.

She will start at CNN in January.

Hu started her career at Quartz four years ago with a story that tracked a refugee’s two-year odyssey from Syria to Europe and back again. She subsequently came on staff as an editor for the Ideas team, before becoming its first visual culture editor.

Drawing on her prior experience as editor of COLORS magazine and her time collaborating on books about political theory and philosophy, Hu created and co-edited “The Objects that Power the Global Economy,” Quartz’s first book.

As geopolitics editor, Hu shepherded the team through a historic news cycle, oversaw ambitious projects like the investigation into deaths caused by Hurricane Maria and Quartz’s coverage of the UN General Assembly, and managed countless breaking-news events.