“The end came on Friday, when G/O fired the few remaining writers at Quartz and sold the carcass to a Canadian firm that appears mostly interested in the email list.”
Quartz lost over $40 million growing to $35 million in revenue. G/O Media bought it, filled it with slideshows and AI-written earnings stories, and fired the last writers. The final buyer appears to want the email list. The owner who said a media brand cannot die killed this one.