Quartz

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Quartz is a digitally native news outlet, born in 2012, for business people in the new global economy. We publish bracingly creative and intelligent journalism with a broad worldview, built primarily for the devices closest at hand: tablets and mobile phones.

Like Wired in the 1990s and The Economist in the 1840s, Quartz embodies the era in which it is being created. The financial crisis that recently engulfed much of the world wasn’t just a cyclical decline or a correction or even a bubble bursting. It was a breaking point. And its shockwaves exposed a fundamentally changed economic order with new leaders and ways of doing business.

Our coverage of this new global economy is rooted in a set of defining obsessions: core topics and knotty 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. You can always reach us by emailinghi@qz.com.

Quartz’s founding team includes veterans of some of the world’s highest-quality news organizations who have reported in 115 countries and speak 19 languages. Our main office is in New York City, and we have correspondents and staff reporters in London, Paris, Indonesia, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. We expect to expand quickly to other locations.

We’re also a nerdy bunch, embracing the opportunity to create a newsroom that is wholly focused on digital storytelling. We view the creation of Quartz as just the beginning of an ongoing process in discovering the best ways to report and deliver information online. Developers and journalists, sometimes one-and-the-same, sit next to each other in the Quartz newsroom as we continually iterate and experiment. We know that the future of news will be written in code.

As we build Quartz, we are focused on the touchscreen and mobile devices that increasingly dominate our lives. Our design began with the iPad foremost in mind, and we modified it from there to suit smartphones and, finally, personal computers. Your experience with Quartz should befit the hardware you visit us with and shift as seamlessly as you do from phone to tablet to laptop and back again. Call us a website or, if you like, a web app: Quartz combines the benefits of the free and open Web with the elegance of an application.

In all that we do at Quartz, we embrace openness: open source code, an open newsroom, and open access to the data behind our journalism. We’ll try to be as transparent with you as possible about the decisions we make and where we are headed.

Last Updated: July 7, 2016

Trump May Push African Countries Away From America and Closer to China

Cobus van Staden
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The idea of the US as the guardian of liberal values against powers like China might now be upended

China Won’t Buy Boeing Planes, iPhones, or US Corn if Trump Starts a Trade War

Zheping Huang
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In an editorial, the Global Times threatened retaliation if Trump starts a trade war with China

Made in China

Bruce McKern
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Once known for cheap knockoffs, Chinese companies are now the world’s innovators

And the Award for ‘Best Corruption Apology by a Chinese Official’ Goes To…

Zheping Huang
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The winner so far is Li Chuncheng, former deputy party chief of Sichuan province, who is now serving 13 years’ jail time for abusing power and bribery

It’s So Dangerous Being a Bridesmaid in China that Some Bride are Hiring Professionals Instead

Yang Hu
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From commoners to renowned celebrities, Chinese bridesmaids are vulnerable to verbal harassment as well as physical and sexual abuse

HIV is Growing So Fast Among Chinese Youth that a University Sells Test Kits in Vending Machines

Echo Huang Yinyin
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The kits, which cost less than $5, are sold alongside snacks and drinks in the machines at China’s Southwest Petroleum University in Sichuan Province

China Worked Its Way into the Debate on the Topic of Abortion

Echo Huang Yinyin
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Clinton's “Like they used to do in China” line might lead some to think the state no longer interferes with family planning--but it still does

Unlike the West, China and India Embrace Globalization

Bruce Stokes
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In contrast with the developed West, globalization and economic integration remain popular in the world’s two largest developing countries—India and China.

Netflix's New, Brilliant China Strategy: Stay Out of the Country

Josh Horwitz
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Netflix is saying zaijian to China, before it even got a foot in the door.

China’s Marriage Rate is Plummeting Because More Women are Choosing Autonomy over Intimacy

Xuan Li
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One of the greatest fears of Chinese parents is coming true: China’s young people are turning away from marriage. The trend is also worrying the government

Beijing: Facebook & Google Can Come Back to China as long as They “Respect China’s Laws”

Josh Horwitz and Echo Huang Yinyin
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Both companies still have business-facing services in China, but consumer-facing services have been blocked for years.

Dating Shows are a Massive Hit in China--and They're Changing Traditional Views on Love and Marriage

Pan Wang
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Is “I’d rather weep in a BMW than laugh on a bike” becoming the norm?

Tensions Rise Between South Korea and China After Chinese Tourists are Denied Entry to Jeju Island

Echo Huang Yinyin
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Following a recent spate of violent crimes conducted by Chinese tourists, some Chinese tourists were barred from entering Jeju

589 Million Chinese Tourists Will Spend $72 Billion in Just 7 Days Celebrating “Golden Week”

Echo Huang Yinyin
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Unexpectedly, the new hot destination is Morocco

China Plans to Teach Developing Countries and the UN About Protecting Human Rights

Echo Huang Yinyin
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Like many of Beijing’s edicts, it is being criticized as a blatant piece of propaganda