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The newsonomics of native, indigenous, and immigrant content
We’re being bombarded with news of a new species of content. “Native advertising” is all the rage, intermixing elements of journalism and commercial speech. This Thanksgiving week couldn’t be a more...
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The newsonomics of Quartz, 19 months in
Quartz, at the tender age of 19 months, can hardly be considered a father to Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and The Upshot. Clearly, though, it’s a major influence. It marked and followed an explanatory way...
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Probably not a surprise: Turns out your boss spends a lot of time in email —...
Do you work in a handsome corner office, one with a view? If so, you likely get a lot of your news in your inbox. Of course, that’s true for many non-captains of industry too. But a new survey from...
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Maybe the homepage is alive after all: Quartz is trying a new twist on the...
It was only a couple months ago that Quartz was making a bold proclamation: “The homepage is dead, and the social web has won.” The behavior of news consumers online was shifting rapidly away from the...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Quartz expands into Africa, with a twofer strategy
Boko Haram. Ebola. Child soldiers. These are the sort of tales of woe that many western readers associate with Africa, home to 1.1 billion, a sixth of the world’s population. Relatively few American or...
View ArticleQuartz maps a future for its interactive charts with Atlas
Quartz editor Kevin Delaney estimates his journalists created close to 4,000 charts last year in the service of stories about the global economy. That is a not-insignificant number of charts. Charts...
View ArticleQuartz sees its readers’ behaviors evolving, so it’s evolving with them: It’s...
Since its launch in 2012, Quartz has been among the fastest-growing and most closely watched, digital news sites. With a mobile-first focus on social distribution, email newsletters, and high-quality...
View ArticleA survey claims 37% of global mobile users have blocked ads, despite low...
Thirty-seven percent of mobile users in 34 countries say they’ve blocked ads at some point on mobile in the last few months of last year, according to research from market research firm Global Web...
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Sports Illustrated’s new app has video “baked into every channel”
Sports Illustrated is releasing a new app Thursday that emphasizes video and prioritizes SI’s stable of well-known writers over scores and other real-time information. After users open a video in the...
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With an interface that looks like a chat platform, Quartz wants to text you...
When you open Quartz’s new app for the first time, you’re greeted with a friendly, “Hey there.” The app, designed like a messaging app, explains that it’s “a conversation about the news — sort of like...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Atlantic Media’s Quartz sale is as quirky and quartzy as the...
Give David Bradley new credit for publishing innovation. The Atlantic Media owner built his company into one of the country’s highest quality journalism companies, embracing the possibilities of...
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Quartz, built on free distribution, has put its articles behind a paywall
At its debut nearly seven years ago, Quartz’s model was to be everywhere — not behind a paywall, not locked inside a mobile app, ready to build an audience through social sharing. “In 2012, the very...
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“Publishers are going to live or die based on their relationship with...
It has been a bumpy stretch for Quartz, one of the most lauded digital news startups of the past decade. Not long after the Atlantic Media site was sold for $86 million to Japanese company Uzabase, web...
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