Global news and insights for a new generation of business leaders.
Quartz was founded in 2012 to serve a new kind of business leader with bracingly creative and intelligent journalism that’s built for users first. We help our audience see around corners, navigate disruption in their industries, build fulfilling careers, broaden their views of the world, and enjoy lives rich with culture.
Our coverage of the global economy is organized around core obsessions—topics and questions of seismic importance to business professionals. These are the issues that energize our newsroom, and we invite you to obsess about them along with us.
Our employees are located around the world, with a significant presence in New York, Washington DC, London, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Hong Kong, San Francisco, and Nairobi. Collectively, we speak dozens of languages, reflecting our global perspective and belief in a more open and connected world.
To serve you best, we produce our journalism across a range of platforms, with a particular focus on design, user experience, and new forms of storytelling. We’ve grown from a single website and email into a suite of digital products and brands, which are listed below.
Our products
We offer five editions of our website with different perspectives on the global economy.
Our emails are made to shine in your inbox, with something fresh every morning, afternoon, and weekend.
Quartz members get unlimited access to our journalism, including deeply researched guides on what the economy’s next normal will look like.
It’s the best way to understand the most important and interesting news in the global economy, right in your home screen.
We make best-in-class digital content, experiences, and products for brands that want more than media.
Meet the team
We’re a nerdy and creative bunch, who embrace the opportunity to change the way news is consumed on the internet. We’re passionate about Quartz’s mission and values.
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We believe in...
Boldness and creativity
At Quartz, there’s an opportunity to build something new every day, whether that’s taking up a new obsession, learning a new language, or trying something new in an ad unit. We always look for the chance to do things boldly, and with bracing creativity to produce the greatest work we could aspire to—and we take pride in the hard work of doing so.
Users first
Our work takes place across different teams, disciplines, and timezones. Communicating with empathy means making sure that your message isn’t just sent, but received. It’s re-reading what you write before sending it off, treating your words with purpose, suggesting a video call when Slack isn’t cutting it. It’s being generous with the context you provide, instead of assuming the other person knows what you know. And we bring the same empathy to our communication with readers, emphasizing clarity in our journalism above all. It’s easy to say we put the user first, but harder to do it consistently.
Force of ideas
At the center of our work are the ideas within our writing. We believe that ideas—to the good and not—have consequence. Our highest work is bringing rigor, insight, and intellectual honesty to that ultimate purpose of separating the bad from the good, giving voice, argument, and flight to the latter.
Taking ownership
Our industry is in a constant state of transition. We’re all here, in part, because we’re excited by that change. It is each individual’s responsibility to improve a broken process, to ask questions if something doesn’t make sense, to correct inaccuracies, to fix a bug, to wipe up a coffee spill even if no one is looking. We experiment thoughtfully, challenge ourselves to uphold high standards, and leave things better than how we found them.
A more global world
Quartz was created for a “post-national” readership: people who are curious about the world far beyond themselves, reject nationalist ideology, and believe that all cultures play a vital role in the global economy. These are also values of our journalism and of our staff. We hire people who bring new perspectives, cultures, experiences, and languages. We reject racism and xenophobia, among our own employees and in the broader political discourse. We believe a more open and connected world is better for everyone.
Spirit of generosity
We seek in our ranks a spirit of generosity, a natural disposition in each colleague toward service and selfless conduct. Our writing should be cut from the same cloth—critical on the merits but informed by charity and forbearance in measuring motive and personal character.
#qzlife
Quartz is defined, more than anything, by the people who work here. We’re all different, but share a common affinity for that #qzlife.
No one here is fancy.
Kira Bindrim @KiraBind
Did the product team 3D print @qz cocktail picks for their cocktails? You bet they did. #qzlife
Annalisa Merelli @missanabeem
Get in touch
We’re eager to hear from you. See below for contact information specific to your needs.
Quartz membership program
You can find information about our membership program here. If you still have questions, email join@qz.com.
Contacting the Quartz Staff
Tap or click any byline on Quartz for that writer’s email address, social media accounts, and latest stories. You can also peruse our staff listing for much of that information. Our email addresses tend to be short, but in a pinch, you can reach us at [first initial][lastname]@qz.com.
We also have several ways to reach us confidentially.
Quartz Creative and our media kit
View the Quartz Creative showcase site here, and get in touch with us about advertising opportunities at ads@qz.com.
For further information see the Quartz Media Kit [pdf].
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Please report bugs and other technical issues you may experience with any of Quartz's products to support@qz.com. We’ll address the issue as soon as we can.
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Press inquiries
For media and broadcast inquiries, speaker requests, and press passes to Quartz events, please contact press@qz.com.
Licensing and republication
To license Quartz articles for republication in print or digital formats, please email license@qz.com.
Pitches
Quartz accepts a very limited number of freelance pitches. If you are interested in submitting a pitch, please use our Staff section to find the relevant editor and reach out to them directly. We appreciate your interest, but can’t promise a reply.
Send us feedback
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RSS feeds
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Mailing address
Quartz has staff throughout the world, but our headquarters are in New York City. Our mailing address is 675 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 410, New York, NY, 10010. Emailing us is faster, though.