Quartz tech reporter Stolzoff leaves for design firm

Simone Stolzoff

Quartz tech reporter Simone Stolzoff has left the company and is now working for IDEO, a design company, as a writer and designer.

Stolzoff, who is based in San Francisco, was covering tech’s influence on work and jobs. He also covered automation, tech ethics, and Silicon Valley culture.

He 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.