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Laura Hazard OwenApril 29, 2022

“An audible gasp”: Quartz, once a high-flying startup, has sold to G/O Media

“Selling was not the plan, but it became the very best path for Quartz.”

Sarah ScireApril 14, 2022

Quartz is dropping its paywall (but hopes its 25,000 paying members will stick around for the newsletters)

With the short-lived metered paywall down, the vast majority of Quartz’s journalism will now be free for all.

Sarah ScireFebruary 22, 2022

In a bid for new reader revenue, Quartz launches a membership for Africa

“Quartz Africa will be aimed not only at readers on the continent, but also readers in the African diaspora and investors and entrepreneurs around the world who are interested in Africa.”

Laura Hazard Owen and Sarah ScireMay 15, 2020

“Prior assumptions about our business no longer apply”: Cuts pile up at Vice, Quartz, The Economist, BuzzFeed, and Condé Nast

And that was just this week.

Christine SchmidtOctober 17, 2019

“Publishers are going to live or die based on their relationship with readers”: How Quartz is rethinking its membership offerings

“It’s more similar to an Audible.com subscription, where you’re getting access to this huge library of journalism, than it is to a daily news subscription.”

Joshua BentonJune 24, 2019

R.I.P. Quartz Brief, the innovative mobile news app. Maybe “chatting with the news” isn’t something most people really want to do?

Just because people like to chat on their phones doesn’t mean they want to chat with you, news organizations.

Christine SchmidtMay 13, 2019

Quartz, built on free distribution, has put its articles behind a paywall

Being a Quartz Member ($100/year) will now be required for access to all of its stories — one more case of a quality publisher finding that advertising revenue isn’t enough to allow a readership without limits.

Christine SchmidtSeptember 13, 2018

📧 Obsessing over one year of the Quartz Obsession email

“One of my fears when we started was that there wouldn’t be enough topics, but it’s safe to say that’s not a concern.”

Ken DoctorJuly 2, 2018

Newsonomics: Atlantic Media’s Quartz sale is as quirky and quartzy as the site itself

Its Japanese buyer Uzabase promises to speed up expansion possibilities for Quartz — and to help build out subscription products.

Quartz launches a Facebook Messenger bot (because why not, because experimentation, because people like messaging)