Quartz hires Baab as a senior reporter
Financial news site Quartz has hired Catherine Baab as a senior reporter. She has been working on a contract basis for Quartz since June 2025. Baab previously spent more than a decade at The Motley Fool as a copywriter. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina.
Quartz seeks a senior reporter
Quartz is looking for an experienced, ambitious, hungry, and talented Senior Reporter to join our newsroom covering U.S. business news. This is an opportunity for a journalist with significant experience in high-impact business and tech features to double down on enterprise reporting. While this position will include some timely coverage, you will be responsible for […]
Quartz seeks a staff writer
Quartz is looking for an ambitious, hungry, and talented Staff Reporter to join our newsroom covering U.S. business news. This is an opportunity for a journalist with experience in the fast-paced world of daily business news who is ready to take on high-impact features and enterprise reporting. While this position will include some timely coverage, […]
Former Quartz owner says its future is “extremely bright”
G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller pushed back against comments that the financial news site Quartz, which it sold last week, is now a shell of its former self, reports Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette, although its new owner has laid off most of its staff. Tobitt reports, “Spanfeller said Quartz quickly became profitable under G/O Media ownership […]
Quartz has laid off most of its editorial staff
Business publication Quartz, which has been sold off, has axed almost all of its editorial team, making it the latest media brand to see low-quality AI use precede mass layoffs, reports Maggie Harrison Dupre of Futurism. Dupre writes, “The Gizmodo Media Group Union, which represents workers at G/O brands including Quartz, cited the Quartz slop in a powerful […]
Looking back at the history of Quartz
Zach Seward, the former editor in chief and CEO at financial news site Quartz, writes about its history after it was sold for the fifth time. Seward writes, “It’s still not quite clear to me what Jim thought he was buying or why he was so desperate to have it. In the subject line of […]
Quartz has been sold to a software company
Financial news site Quartz has been sold to software company Redbrick for an undisclosed amount. Sara Fischer and Kerry Flynn of Axios report, “Redbrick is buying Quartz as part of an effort to scale publishing sites using tech from its other portfolio companies, a similar model to that used by Recurrent Ventures, The Arena Group and others. In […]
Quartz hires Yildirim as staff writer
Quartz editor in chief Dan Hirschhorn sent out the following on Tuesday: Team Quartz, We’re excited to announce that Ece Yildirim is joining the newsroom as a Staff Reporter. Ece will report and write a wide range of stories, with a particular focus on coverage for our Tech & Innovation channel. Ece (pronounced Edge-eh) joins us from CNBC, where […]
Quartz hires Fellman as markets and finance editor
Quartz editor in chief Dan Hirschhorn sent out the following on Monday: Team Quartz, We are delighted to announce that Josh Fellman, a deeply experienced business journalist, is joining the newsroom as Staff Editor, Markets & Finance. In this new role, Josh will lead all our coverage in the Money & Markets channel, work that will include assigning, […]
AI-generated articles appearing on Quartz
Riley MacLeod of Aftermath writes about the proliferation of artificial intelligence-generated articles on financial news site Quartz. MacLeod writes, “As of publishing, the ‘Quartz Intelligence Newsroom’ has written 22 articles today, running the gamut from earnings reports to Reddit communities banning Twitter posts to the Sackler settlement to, delightfully, a couple articles about how much AI […]
