New Quartz Editorial Leadership Team

Quartz editor in chief Katherine Bell announced today changes to the Quartz editorial leadership team, including new roles and responsibilities for managing editor Kira Bindrim and Quartz at Work editor Heather Landy, as well as plans for a new managing editor position.

The goal of these changes is to align the structure of the newsroom with the most important and distinctive aspects of Quartz — our global perspective, continual innovation in how to report and present business news, our culture, and the forward-looking, interdisciplinary, contextual way we track ideas over time — as well as our commitment to developing deeper and longer-term relationships with our readers.

Kira Bindrim is now an executive editor, focused on the experience of Quartz across platforms and around the world. Within the newsroom, Kira will work with curation, editorial R&D, growth, the Daily Obsession email team, and special projects to make sure Quartz is always forward-thinking, creative, and ambitious in the ways we present and share our journalism — and that the parts add up to an indispensable whole for our readers. She will continue to manage our bureaus outside the US, working closely with their editors to build regional audiences while ensuring that all of our coverage is sufficiently global.

Kira joined Quartz in May 2016 as the inaugural editor of the Quartz talent lab, and became managing editor at the end of 2017. Kira was previously managing editor of Newsweek, homepage editor at Reuters, and online strategy director at Crain’s New York Business.

Heather Landy has been promoted to executive editor. She will continue to lead Quartz at Work, building on the amazing work her team already has done to create the best and most up-to-date, relevant, and inclusive resource for professionals who want to improve their work lives and workplaces. We anticipate a lot of growth and innovation ahead for Quartz at Work, including as an important part of membership. A deputy for Quartz at Work will be named.

Heather will also now oversee the talent lab alongside Quartz at Work, a merging of journalism and real life that should yield some exciting experiments and a consistency of cultural values and excellent management across the newsroom. She and talent lab editor Holly Ojalvo will work together to make sure that the ideas and research we publish inform our own hiring, training and development, and management practices and vice versa.

Before she launched Quartz at Work, Heather served as our managing editor and global news editor. Prior to joining Quartz in July 2014, Heather was editor in chief of American Banker magazine. Before moving into editing, she was a special correspondent to the Washington Post, a reporter at Bloomberg News, and a reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where she won a Gerald Loeb Award for her business coverage. She also taught undergraduates in the journalism program at Texas Christian University.

The new managing editor will be responsible for pushing our coverage forward, making sure it is consistently ambitious, interdisciplinary, unique, and indispensable.

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