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In the coming weeks, moving boxes will begin to arrive at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. MSNBC staffers, long spread across multiple floors of the iconic building, will pack up decades of history and prepare for a symbolic leap into the future. By mid‑September, the network will trade its longtime home for new offices in Times Square, a two‑floor setup in the former BuzzFeed headquarters connected by dual staircases. “We are not going to some closet in FiDi,” one senior staffer quipped, noting that the modern space on floors will include new studios, a central newsroom, and, for the first time, a single contiguous home base.
The move—dubbed “Summer Camp” internally because it’s a temporary stop before a permanent headquarters is built—represents far more than a change of scenery. Later this week, employees will begin receiving…
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