''Quartz News'' is an American

news program News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either video production, produced local programming, ...

from

Quartz Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical form ...

hosted by Preeti Varathan that premiered on July 19, 2018 on

Facebook Watch Facebook Watch is a video on demand service operated by American company Meta Platforms (previously named Facebook, Inc.). The company announced the service in August 2017 and was available to all U.S. users that month. Facebook Watch's original ...

. The show is broadcast on Thursdays at 12 PM ET.

Format

''Quartz News'' features "in-depth reporting from around the world. Each episode investigates a story that’s driving the global conversation. Beyond the show itself, Quartz News will cultivate its community through a companion Messenger bot experience that will give followers the opportunity to interact with the show."

Production

On February 12, 2018, it was announced that

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was developing a news section within its streaming service

to feature breaking news stories. The news section was set to be overseen by Facebook's head of news partnerships Campbell Brown. On June 6, 2018, it was announced that Facebook's first slate of partners for their news section on Facebook Watch would include Quartz. The news program the two companies developed was revealed to be titled ''Quartz News''. On June 12, 2018, it was announced that Preeti Varathan, an economics and finance reporter in New York, would be a reporter on the show. The show was expected to utilize journalism from Quartz news bureaus around the world in Asia, Africa, India, Europe and the Americas.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Quartz News Facebook Watch original programming 2010s American television news shows 2018 American television series debuts