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Quartz starts podcast on changing careers

Financial news site Quartz has started a weekly podcast called “FWD: Thinking” on how people have changed careers.

A new episode will be released each Tuesday.

The podcast is hosted by Khe Hy, Quartz’s first entrepreneur in residence and one of the founding editors at Quartz At Work, which focuses on management, workplace, and career development. Editor in chief and co-CEO Kevin Delaney is also featured in each episode.

The first episode featuyres Brad Katsuyama, the former star trader at the Royal Bank of Canada and the main character in Michael Lewis’ book “Flash Boys” who decided to start his own stock exchange, IEX.

Other guests featured in this five-episode season include Leighann Lord, who switched from corporate communications to stand-up comedy, and Note to Self’s Manoush Zomorodi, who launched a women-led podcast company after sexual harassment allegations rocked WNYC.

Hy is a former managing director at BlackRock. He also runs the podcast “Rad Awakenings.”

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.

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