Business-leaning publisher Quartz has spun through a few different ownership structures in recent years. The latest, since November, a return to its roots with former product chief and CEO Zack Seward taking over ownership from Japanese firm Uzabase.  

Mark Stenberg spoke with Seward about the year ahead for Quartz, including how it expects to generate up to $3 million in subscription revenue (a slice of its total). It plans to burrow deeper into newsletters, where the quirky site was a little ahead of the curve with its long-running Quartz Daily Brief.  

Check out the piece for its newsletter playbook, plus tons of details, like:

• Quartz now has 27,000 paying members
• Subscribers grew 71% over the last year
• Daily Brief readers consume the newsletter for four months before subscribing to Quartz

This comes as it releases three new editorial products under Seward's ownership. 

In case you thought you were getting away without a mention of Google, alas, I have to recommend you read Ronan Shields’ latest on Google’s claim that there will be "no backdoors" or bias in its latest privacy policies.

As you’ll know if you tuned in to our town hall on Monday, that’s a claim industry execs find hard to swallow. If you want your voice heard, our survey on Google's announcement is still open and will only take a minute to fill in. 

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