Quartz’s “Flash Briefing” now available on Amazon Echo

Quartz Quartz Quartz’s daily email is now available to be heard on Amazon Echo.

Consumers who use Amazon Echo and its voice-activated Alexa service can enable Quartz’s daily Flash Briefing in the Alexa app by accessing the Flash Briefing menu under settings.

After enabling the settings, customers simply ask, “Alexa, give me my Flash Briefing” to hear the Quartz Flash Briefing, which is a recording of its cornerstone Daily Brief email.

Quartz’s Daily Brief, which was part of Quartz’s launch four years ago, focuses focus on providing a sophisticated roundup of essential news and views, written by veteran journalists, to be read on mobile devices. Today almost half — 48 percent — of its 250,000 subscribers are in senior management, and 12 percent are C-level executives.

Motley Fool and CNBC are two other business news outlets that have put their content on Amazon Echo.

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.