Abstract
Sometime next month, a new editor in chief will take the helm at C&EN, and I will return to my old job as executive editor for our business and policy coverage. I can’t disclose much more, but I can say that the new editor will work in C&EN offices on the sixth floor of the American Chemical Society’s Hach building in Washington, DC. This arrangement is as it should be. The head editor of a magazine or newspaper should work in the publication’s main newsroom. These days, though, that’s where the certainty ends. C&EN and ACS, like organizations across the country, are grappling with the questions of who should work where and for how many days a week. There are no easy answers. The answers seemed a lot easier back in the early 1990s, when C&EN’s managing editor, Madeleine Jacobs, asked Rudy Baum, then a science reporter, to become the
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