Quartz hires its first environmental reporter

Zoe Schlanger

Zoe Schlanger has joined Quartz as an environmental reporter, based in New York.

She will have a special focus on developing coverage of climate change and environmental policy. Her reporting will be included in Quartz obsessions such as “Energy Shocks” and “The Sea” as the first environmental reporter at Quartz.

Schlanger was previously a senior reporter at Newsweek, where she got national pickup on her coverage of Detroit air pollution and won an award for a story on the threat of overpopulation.

She has written for a number of other outlets including The New York Times, Guernica, The Nation, Maddowblog, Gothamist, Guernica, and Talking Points Memo.

She has a bachelor’s from NYU in politics and environmental studies and speaks Spanish.

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.