Quartz adds to editorial staff

Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

Hello Quartz –

I’m happy to announce several excellent additions to our global team:

Harish Menon joined last month as desk editor for Quartz India in Mumbai. He comes to us from the Times of India, the world’s largest English daily, where he worked on the national and business desks. Before that, he was a reporter and editor with Indian news agencies including PTI and IANS. He has degrees from Christ College, Bangalore University and Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication in Pune. Harish is fluent in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil and Kannada. You can follow him @HarishMenon

Jill Petzinger joins as a reporter on the push team (writing primarily for the Quartz for iPhone app and the Daily Brief) based in Berlin, Germany, starting today. She most recently was an editor for Handelsblatt Global, the English-language website of Germany’s largest daily business newspaper. Jill was earlier deputy editor at That’s Shanghai magazine in China, and a freelance journalist for the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other outlets. Prior to that she was an advertising executive in London and Amsterdam. Jill has a master’s degree in modern languages from St. Andrew’s University in Scotland. She speaks German and French. You can follow her @JillPetz

Michelle Phung joined Quartz last month as a web applications developer in New York. She was most recently a software engineer at IBM Cloudant and earlier worked at a small design studio and as an intern at Glam Media. She is the newest PMC member of the Apache Software Foundation’s CouchDB project, and a moderator for design@couchdb. Michelle has a bachelor’s in computer engineering from San Jose State University, with a minor in mathematics. You can follow her @gilgameshell or catch her on IRC in #couchdb and #couchdb-dev as ‘michellep’—or talk to her on Slack or IRL.

Oliver Staley joins as management reporter in New York, starting today. Oliver joins us from Bloomberg, where he was most recently covering health care from its London bureau. Over nine years at Bloomberg, Oliver covered subjects ranging from higher education and the European financial crisis to the hotel and casino industries. At Quartz, he will be focused on management globally, including strategy, business education, and research into leadership and organizations. Oliver has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Columbia University. You can follow him @OStaley

Elizabeth Winkler joins as a reporter on the push team based in Washington, DC, starting Feb. 15. Elizabeth was earlier a speechwriter for the US State department, and a freelance reporter for the Economist, Foreign Policy, Quartz, and elsewhere. She has a bachelor’s from Princeton and a master’s from Stanford, both in English and American literature. Elizabeth speaks French and German. You can follow her @ElizWinkler

Please join me in welcoming them.