Published on: 2025-05-08 09:15:15
The cursed pattern continues: following a baffling and error-ridden turn to AI content, the once-acclaimed business publication Quartz has been sold off and its editorial team almost entirely axed — making it the latest media brand to see low-quality AI use precede mass layoffs. As the business publication's cofounder Zach Seward, who now leads editorial AI initiatives at The New York Times, explained in a blog post yesterday, Quartz has changed hands several times since its launch back in 2012
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 10:24:16
"It's impossible to kill a media brand," Jim Spanfeller told me on my first day working for him, as we sat in his corner office. He had just bought the business news organization, Quartz, that I had spent the past decade building and, most recently, trying desperately to save from oblivion. So I was inclined to believe him. But I knew it wasn't true. Jim and his private-equity-backed digital-media conglomerate G/O Media had already destroyed several of their properties, some all at once (Deadsp
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