Quartz editor: 53 percent of people get biz news from phone

Kevin Delaney

Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney spoke at Southern Methodist University earlier this week, and Christina Cox of The Daily Campus covered his comments.

Cox wrote, “Through surveys, Delaney and his team found that 53 percent of people get their business news from their phones, reflecting a national trend in a change in news consumption.

“‘There is a fundamental shift in how readers are getting their news and that should reflect how journalism is pursued,’ he said. ‘In many ways it’s more challenging since it’s not decades old.’

“With this information Quartz chose to pursue a digital-first news site focused on reaching readers through social media and creating content specifically made for the Web. According to Delaney, now about 70 percent of the site’s traffic comes through social networks.

“‘We’re in the middle of what I would argue is a fundamental change in how readers are accessing the news,’ he said. ‘It starts with the primary expectation for anything will come through a social network.'”

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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.