Quartz app is a conversational interface

Politico Media talked with the Quartz team that developed its new iPhone application.

Here is an excerpt:

POLITICO: Have you considered integrating the app with real messaging apps, such as Slack or Facebook Messenger?
ADAM PASICK, BREAKING NEWS EDITOR: We’ve always seen the iPhone app as just the first step. The great thing about a conversational interface and voice is that it would work just as well on Slack, Facebook Messenger, Gchat, or any number of messaging platforms.
POLITICO: Who writes the messages and news blurbs that the app sends to users? How big is Quartz’s app team and many editorial staffers are dedicated to this app?
PASICK: I’m leading a small team of reporters and editors working on the actual news items, along with Jason Karaian in London, Svati Narula in New York, Elizabeth Winkler in DC, and Jill Petzinger in Berlin. We’re also in the process of adding a few more people to the team. We’re having a lot of fun writing in a conversational, irreverent voice and telling stories in a totally new format.

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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.

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Tommy Humphreys says:
February 15, 2016 at 8:23 pm
The work we're doing at CEO.CA -- and specifically chat.ceo.ca, to create a hybrid chat and publication interface, is worth checking out. We're all Javascript based, and about 1/10th the load size of Bloomberg or Seeking Alpha, roughly. Check out the CEO.CA app! Love TBN! All the best