Quartz hires Alvarez as chief product officer

Daniel Alvarez

Quartz has appointed Daniel Alvarez as chief product officer.

He’ll be responsible for all product development at Quartz, ensuring the company’s continued excellence in editorial product innovation and overseeing the engineering, design, product management, and analytics teams.

Alvarez joins Quartz from NBC Universal, where he served as vice president of product and design for local NBC and Telemundo TV stations, most recently earning the News Innovator of the Year award from the Local Media Association in 2020. He also serves on the advisory board of the News Product Alliance.

“Daniel is a seasoned product leader, and we’re excited to welcome him to Quartz,” said Zach Seward, co-founder and CEO of Quartz, in a statement. “His bold and creative approach to editorial products will help continue to push Quartz forward in developing new and better ways to serve readers.”

He starts at Quartz on April 12, reporting to Seward, and will be based in New York.

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.