Its founding team members were from news organizations including Bloomberg, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

It also has correspondents and staff reporters based in Hong Kong, India, London, Los Angeles, Thailand, Washington DC, and elsewhere.

[25] Quartz is structured around a collection of phenomena or what it calls "obsessions"[26][27] instead of "beats", preferring news stories or reports to be either short or long rather than middle of the road or average.

Chartbuilder has been used by other media organizations, including CNBC, FiveThirtyEight, NBC News, New Hampshire Public Radio, NPR, The New Yorker, The Press-Enterprise, CEOWORLD magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.

[28][29] In December 2024, a ChatGPT tool used to write hundreds of daily articles on securities and exchange filings for the past year was shut down because it would sometimes publish incorrect names and figures that actually belonged to other companies.

[30] As of January 2025 Quartz had expanded its use of generative AI to publish lengthier articles with disclaimers about potential inaccuracies due to the use of experimental technology.