Quartz hires Stolzoff to cover tech in San Francisco

Simone Stolzoff

Quartz has hired Simone Stolzoff as a tech reporter in San Francisco.

He started this week.

Stolzoff will cover automation, tech ethics, and Silicon Valley culture.

He recently graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree in journalism. He studied feature writing and multimedia storytelling.

Stolzoff is a native of San Francisco. He has written for Fast Company, Vice, and various other publications. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economics and creative writing, he worked as a copywriter and marketer in the tech industry.

He was also director of communications for food/tech startup Josephine.

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.