Categories: OLD Media Moves

Quartz, Atlantic’s forthcoming biz news site, hires Economist media editor

Joe Pompeo of Capital New York reports that The Atlantic’s new business news site Quartz has hired The Economis’s media editor.

Pompeo writes, “Quartz has hired The Economist‘s media editor, Gideon Lichfield, to oversee its news content. Lichfield also previously served as The Economist‘s deputy digital editor, a role in which he helped develop the magazine’s online strategy. (His new title at Quartz will be global news editor.)

“‘He’s an amazing journalist and an amazing thinker about digital media,’ said Quartz editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney. “That’s the combination at the core of what we’re doing at Quartz.’

“But that’s just it: What are they doing at Quartz?

“An elaborate geological metaphor and an appealingly simple URL are behind the name, which will live online at the two-character qz.com. Delaney recently told Forbes that the intent is ‘to cover obsessively the tectonic shifts in the global economy.'”

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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.