quartz
Quartz finally burns out
A moment's silence for one of the great 2010s journalism innovators
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Social & Digital coffee break: Quartz's future crystallises
Quartz goes private, newsroom product management is the future, and more essential reads for today.
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Newsletters: how to connect communities
Newsletters are an intensely personal medium. Here’s how to do them right - and use them to make an impact.
history
Quartz obsesses over Victorian newspapers
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 it. The fact that’s it’s a deep dive
content strategy
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 [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IOVREvtEB5wkriiLsBSOP0lz0SCgDevoRcZPQs0cf_A/edit#gid=0] . 2 Bored Panda and one Brietbart story in there…
books
Quartz is five and heading back to the future: with print
Blimey [https://qz.com/1069982/thank-you-readers-quartz-is-turning-five-years-old-heres-what-comes-next/] : > 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: management issues, careers and
bots
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 [http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/quartz-created-a-bot-that-can-break-news-and-wants-to-help-other-news-orgs-develop-their-own/] : > At the Online News Association conference next month, Quartz plans
apps
Why is Quartz launching an app?
Why is Quartz launching its own app? [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/why-is-quartz-launching-its-own-app-a-few-theories] 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 after the first
digital strategy
Quartz passes FT & Economist in unique visitors
Quartz continues to power ahead [http://fortune.com/2016/01/21/quartz-growth/] > 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 the Financial
mobile
Quartz head to the bottom for mobile navigation
Another day, another Quartz announcement, this time about their site design [http://qz.com/415916/whats-new-on-the-ever-evolving-qz-com/] (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, explaining our intent. There’
distributed content
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 [http://qz.com/413280/from-the-editor-how-quartz-is-doing-video/]: > We’re now entering into video production, with a small team of experienced digital video journalists experimenting ambitiously with new formats, techniques, and distribution. That
aviation
The aviation debate
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/10/on-my-way-to-berlin.jpg] Eric Holthaus wrote a piece for Quartz, explaining his Damascene conversion in San Fransisco airport, and his decision to quit flying [http://qz.com/129477/why-im-never-flying-again/]: > So I guess last week’s report hit me harder