You can light up the Quartz newsroom

Here at Quartz, our newsroom will be driven by a set of core obsessions. (Kevin talked about…

Gideon, our global news editor, has been working on a draft of the Quartz style guide: an early attempt to define our voice and sensibility. We’ll probably publish the guide at some point, but for now, it should suffice to say that George Orwell is frequently cited. The…

Link: Why Quartz is ditching beats in favor of obsessions

On his blog, Gideon explains how we are organizing our newsroom:

So instead of fixed beats, we structure our newsroom around an…

Earlier today we announced that Gideon Lichfield is joining Quartz as our global news editor, and we couldn’t be more excited.

As we began sharing our vision for Quartz this winter, several people volunteered that Gideon would be the perfect person to work on this project…

There was something nice about the scrap of paper with “QUARTZ” on it that had been hanging on our front door since May, but we figured it was time to get a real sign. So there we are, along with our neighbors The Atlantic Wire.

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