Quartz editorial director of growth Gavin departs

Phoebe Gavin

Phoebe Gavin, editorial director of growth at financial news site Quartz, has left the news organization.

Gavin is now focusing full-time on her coaching business.

She also has a book coming out next week called “The Workplace Guide to Time Management: Best Practices to Maximize Productivity.”

Gavin joined Quartz in May 2018 as a member of Quartz’s Growth team, which leads efforts to grow Quartz’s audience. She joined Quartz from ThinkProgress, where she was senior audience engagement editor. In that role, she developed a new digital distribution strategy and revolutionized the site’s Twitter presence — growing it by 120 percent in just a year.

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.