NRC Q is the latest initiative of NRC about “the business world and your career”. It has been live for one week and is already booking successes. That is not easy in a market dominated by major competitor NU Zakelijk with 5 million visitors per day. I speak to NRC Q'er-from-the-first-hour Freek Staps. “We want to become the business news site for people in a hurry.”
NRC Handelsblad, exterior views, 13-05-2014. Photo Imara Angulo Vidal
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Like a whirlwind I storm into the New York Times, er, NRC building on algeria mobile phone number list the Rokin in Amsterdam. I have an hour to get answers from Freek Staps (38), a journalist at NRC for 14 years and now the driving force behind the new business initiative NRC Q . We speak to each other in the NRC Café, which in terms of allure is very similar to Dauphine .
AllureTimes building and the fairly new NRC building knows how much they resemble each other. Just like the New York Times, NRC has square building shapes, spacious and open editorial rooms, nice meeting rooms and transparent windows. And while you're there, you can look inside from the Rokin and it feels like you're right next to the production of the media company.
Part of the city
The same goes the other way around, of course. NRC is almost achieving the status of integrated hotspot in the capital of the Netherlands. It seems as if it lives among the people. Staps: “A strong presence indeed and we also organize meetings. The options exchange used to be here and since December 2012 we have been in this building.”