Audience development PM @fundjournalism / before: audience + growth @qz @Inc / I have strong feelings about Carolina basketball and the Oxford comma
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Come for the Mo Salah and other African goalscorers' season review. Stay for the Mo Salah and Champions League final preview.
With @qz-y charts!
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The data show shooting-related searches are short-lived even though they are happening more frequently. nytv.to/rNA2r
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There have been more mass shootings in the US in 2022 than there are days in the year. chart by @Clarii_D
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Here is a Good Thing: since August I have been running @qz's How To email, which is chock full of tips for how to live and work better. The archive is now in front of the paywall 👀 threading a few of my favs!
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How @timmcdonnell explained LNG to me, and the only explanation I will be using from now on qz.com/emails/quartz-weekend…
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Doritos removed 5 chips from each bag, Bounty trimmed its rolls by 3 sheets, and Wheat Thins determined that family size is now 2 oz smaller—all for the same price as before. Great look at how inflation often hides in the air pockets of emptier packaging. qz.com/2129426
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🌎 The mezcal craze began just over a decade ago. Bars and mixologists in the West promoted mezcal as an artisanal drink for hipsters, and mezcalerias popped up in big cities to serve mezcal flights.
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For a (wholesome!) story: I wanna hear from folks who try new TikTok dance trends about why you think they're fun: just a cool new thing to learn? do you feel some sense of online community? lmk in replies or DMs!
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One day three years ago, I spent ~$50 on an Old Navy black puffer coat and never thought about it again—UNTIL NOW. Let’s go on a visual tour. (lil thread)
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1/ In just nine months, 2021 broke all records for US startup funding, by a towering margin. US startups raised roughly $240 billion as of Sept. 30, dwarfing 2020’s full-year total of $166 billion.
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🥳 It's Quartz's ninth birthday! This one feels extra special—our first as an independent media company, our second in a global pandemic, and *lots* of new staff this year, more far-flung than ever. We used to take a birthday photo on the roof, now we get together in a GIF.
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1/ As employers around the globe continue to settle into distance work, Quartz is honoring companies that already embrace our distributed-workforce future. Now introducing the 2021 ranking of the Best Companies for Remote Workers. #QuartzBestCompanies
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The Quartz Daily Brief provides the most important and interesting news from the global economy. Here's what you need to know today in six tweets. ⬇️
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During the historic winter storms in Texas earlier this year, @malloriesullivn, @NardaLPerez, @a_slayton and the rest of the @dallasnews audience team used Instagram to get vital information out to communities and listen to their needs. #TableStakes
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✨ Excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a FREE course titled “Product Strategies for Journalism” from Aug. 23 to Sept. 19, 2021 through @JCourses.
🧵Here’s why you should register:
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Over the last few days, my grief has made it difficult to find the words to describe what a passionate, brilliant, inspiring, funny, and warm person @theRightSteph was. As usual, @mariaaspan finds the perfect words. And I wish Steph was here to read them. maria-aspan.medium.com/remem…