Quartz reporters are ideas people

Brian Morrissey of Digiday interviewed Quartz editor Kevin Delaney about how the business news site doesn’t operate the way other media organizations do.

Morrissey writes, “Quartz has a 47-person newsroom with a staunchly internationalist outlook, boasting fluency in 20 languages and experience reporting frmo some 115 countries. But the core skill Delaney looks for in reporters is an ideas focus that yields prototypical Quartz pieces like this one that used a chart to take a closer look at iPhone shipments, with a less rosy picture presented than what Apple chief Tim Cook presented.

“‘At a traditional news organization, if you have a beat a lot of news comes to you. There’s a flow of things that supplies you with ideas. The single biggest correlation of success at Quartz is when I can get someone talking about topics and I start thinking those are Quartz stories. Someone who has an idea for what’s interesting and important is by far the biggest predictor for success.'”

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