Forbes adjusts to new newsroom

Lewis Dvorkin, the chief product officer at Forbes, writes about its new offices in Jersey City.

Dvorkin writes, “For me the best view of all is our open newsroom. We’ve gone from rabbit-hutch offices on eight floors to minicultures on two floors. Everyone’s connected by a central staircase, with common areas for people to gather on their way up or down. We inhabit enclaves of desks, sofas, living room tables and “huddle rooms.”

“I see growing collaboration from all angles (I sit in the open, too). To my left, someone from sales could be working with a newsroom data analyst or a social media editor. If I swivel my chair I might see an editor who straddles the worlds of journalism and ad sponsorships, or the business owner of our apps team. If I walk straight ahead I might run into an engineer finishing a puzzle with a product person. These are the new jobs and relationships of journalism, and we’re hiring to fill more of them.

“No move comes without its adjustments. New York cuisine has been replaced with, well, something less. We now have a grab ‘n’ scan vending service to supplement the Jif peanut butter and organic milled flaxseeds brought from home.”

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