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Quartz was founded by Atlantic Media and launched its website on the 24th of September 2012 in New York City. Its founding team included Kevin Delaney, a former managing director of WSJ.com, Zach Seward, a former Wall Street Journal social media editor, and Gideon Lichfield, a global news editor from The Economist.
Japanese company Uzabase acquired Quartz from Atlantic Media in 2018 for $86 million. Uzabase later sold the publication to its own staff in November 2020.
Apple removed Quartz's app from the Chinese App Store in October 2019 as part of the Great Firewall's enforcement, following Quartz's reporting on the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests. The removal happened the same month Zach Seward became the site's new CEO.
Chartbuilder is a chart-building tool developed by Quartz that forms the basis of its Atlas platform. It was adopted by numerous other media organizations including CNBC, FiveThirtyEight, NBC News, NPR, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal.
In December 2024, Quartz shut down a ChatGPT tool that had been writing hundreds of daily articles on securities and exchange filings for about a year, after it published incorrect names and figures belonging to other companies. A G/O Media spokesperson called the tools "purely experimental." By January 2025, Quartz had expanded AI use to longer articles with inaccuracy disclaimers.
Redbrick, a Canadian software firm, acquired Quartz and sister site The Inventory from G/O Media in April 2025. Following the sale, ten out of twelve Quartz newsroom employees were let go.