Quartz hires Mancini as its global news editor

Quartz managing editor Heather Landy sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

Dear Quartz,

I’m thrilled to let you know that John Mancini will be joining Quartz in New York on Feb. 28 as our new global news editor.

John is a terrific journalist. His incredible, and incredibly wide-ranging, career suggests someone who is appreciative of strong talent and surprising discoveries—i.e. an excellent fit for Quartz.

John is the former editor of Newsday, one of the largest-circulation daily newspapers in the US. He has been a global news manager for AP, and most recently served as senior director of digital news gathering for NBC News.

He began his career as a reporter and copy editor at the Greenwich Time/Stanford Advocate. So I know he’ll be an excellent resource in our grammar and style Slack channel. And he has covered the transit beat for NY1 News, so surely he will have advice for us when subway commute issues set the NYC office channel abuzz. In addition to all that, John will be working with and across our edit teams each day, managing our news flow, thinking about creative approaches to stories, and coordinating coverage of big events.

You’ll quickly find, as I have, that John has an innate sense of story worthiness and a keen interest in great storytelling, along with deep admiration for what he has seen so far from Quartz. An old friend of mine, a veteran journalist who knows John from Newsday, says he’s the most dynamic editor she has ever worked for, with great ideas and great energy. She warns me that I’d better prepare for some out-of-the-box thinking, which is why I’m so confident he’ll be perfect for Quartz. You can find him at @getmancini on Twitter.