Ashley Webster

@priyankaKvora @axios This is amazing!! Congrats, Priyanka! 🎉

One big thing: I'm now the Director of Audience at @axios, overseeing on and off-platform editorial strategy. I'll collaborate with editorial and business colleagues within and outside the company, and develop Axios' SEO structures and social voice as we move into local markets.

@lauraftzpatrick Laura, this is incredible! 🤩

I made that!!!!! An actual wedding cake!!!

Come for the Mo Salah and other African goalscorers' season review. Stay for the Mo Salah and Champions League final preview. With @qz-y charts! qz.com/africa/2170891…

The data show shooting-related searches are short-lived even though they are happening more frequently. nytv.to/rNA2r

There have been more mass shootings in the US in 2022 than there are days in the year. chart by @Clarii_D qz.com/2170102/nras-a…

Here is a Good Thing: since August I have been running @qz's How To email, which is chock full of tips for how to live and work better. The archive is now in front of the paywall 👀 threading a few of my favs!

There's always been a gap between how good of a business Twitter is and how important it is for society. For a @qz piece I'm working on, what's your one (1) radical—or pragmatic—idea for making Twitter a better business?

How @timmcdonnell explained LNG to me, and the only explanation I will be using from now on qz.com/emails/quartz-…

Farewell. #CarolinaFamily | @WellsFargo

Doritos removed 5 chips from each bag, Bounty trimmed its rolls by 3 sheets, and Wheat Thins determined that family size is now 2 oz smaller—all for the same price as before. Great look at how inflation often hides in the air pockets of emptier packaging. qz.com/2129426

🌎 The mezcal craze began just over a decade ago. Bars and mixologists in the West promoted mezcal as an artisanal drink for hipsters, and mezcalerias popped up in big cities to serve mezcal flights.  qz.com/2130873/in-the…

For a (wholesome!) story: I wanna hear from folks who try new TikTok dance trends about why you think they're fun: just a cool new thing to learn? do you feel some sense of online community? lmk in replies or DMs!

One day three years ago, I spent ~$50 on an Old Navy black puffer coat and never thought about it again—UNTIL NOW. Let’s go on a visual tour. (lil thread)

@klenzdesign @barronsonline Yay! Congrats, Kristin! 🎉

1/ In just nine months, 2021 broke all records for US startup funding, by a towering margin. US startups raised roughly $240 billion as of Sept. 30, dwarfing 2020’s full-year total of $166 billion. qz.com/2074714/2021-h…

🥳 It's Quartz's ninth birthday! This one feels extra special—our first as an independent media company, our second in a global pandemic, and *lots* of new staff this year, more far-flung than ever. We used to take a birthday photo on the roof, now we get together in a GIF.

1/ As employers around the globe continue to settle into distance work, Quartz is honoring companies that already embrace our distributed-workforce future. Now introducing the 2021 ranking of the Best Companies for Remote Workers. #QuartzBestCompanies qz.com/work/2053446/t…