Flipboard<p>Last week, Quartz, the finance publication co-founded by Zach Seward in 2012, was sold by G/O Media to a Canadian software company. All the editorial staff were fired. In a blogpost, Seward writes about Quartz's journey from thriving enterprise to "zombie brand." It's a story that has been repeated across journalism for years now, but Seward sees some hope in the ascendant non-profit media scene. "The media business often feels like a battle between idealists and cynics," he writes. "Most of my favorite news startups of the current era have chosen the non-profit path, which has its own major challenges, but at least cynicism is not one of them."</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/da1UwY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/da1UwY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/GOMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOMedia</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Quartz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quartz</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/MediaIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NonProfits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonProfits</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/IndependentMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndependentMedia</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Newstodon</span></a></p>