Quartz‘s daily Obsessions e-mail is a rather wonderful thing, in its randomness. Some days, the e-mail gets deleted unread, because I have neither the time nor the inclination to read the subject on offer, and some days I devour…
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Word counts for viral stories in late 2017
There’s some interesting figures from Newswhip as to the most engaging content on Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest in late 2017: (You can see the top 20 in detail. 2 Bored Panda and one Brietbart story in there…) Liam…
Quartz is five and heading back to the future: with print
Blimey: This month we are proud to celebrate Quartz’s fifth birthday and share with you our latest plans. That happened quickly. They’ve got a number of initiatives in the works, including: Quartz at Work — More general in-workplace coverage:…
Quartz unleashes the bots — as a journo's assistant
There’s been a lot of focus on bots — chat bots in particular — as news delivery vehicles. How about using them as news? Well, Quartz has something rather lovely coming for you: At the Online News Association conference next month,…
Why is Quartz launching an app?
Why is Quartz launching its own app? Chris Sutcliffe make a stab at identifying why Quartz is launching its own app – but none of them convincingly answer this key problem: Research has demonstrated that drop-off for app use is precipitous…
Quartz passes FT & Economist in unique visitors
Quartz continues to power ahead In an internal memo that Fortune managed to get hold of, publisher Jay Lauf said the site’s traffic rose by 65% in December to almost 17 million unique visitors, more than The Economist or…
Quartz head to the bottom for mobile navigation
Another day, another Quartz announcement, this time about their site design (which is in continuous evolution): Still, sometimes we make enough changes all at once that it’s worth pointing them out and, as we’ve done in the past,…
Quartz gets serious about experimenting with video
Interesting [announcement from Quartz editor Kevin Delaney, explaining why the business site is about to get serious about video: We’re now entering into video production, with a small team of experienced digital video journalists experimenting ambitiously with new formats,…