Forbes: Journalists and Statistics: Paying Attention to the Data of a New Media World

Lewis DVorkin: Forbes is using Newsbeat, a product from Betaworks as a real-time analytics tool. Also: "Our full-time staffers and contributors each have their own personal dashboard to tell them how they are doing. And, of course, each of their posts has a page-view counter in full public view. Over the last few months we’ve had some technical snafus with the public counter. When we did, our staffers and contributors expressed disappointment. They’ve come to depend on it as a feedback loop and feel somewhat in the dark without it."

Forbes: Turning Forbes magazine content into Web content — and vice versa

Lewis DVorkin: "The way Forbes sees it, there are two sets of business news consumers — print and digital — and each wants something different. The imperative is to use the same underlying information to serve both. To accomplish that, we’re developing new labor and economic models. That also means educating content creators that their jobs are changing, then providing the right tools to perform tasks associated with those new jobs. ... Most [traditional publishers] still dump their print stories into continuous Web pages that look and feel ten years old (Yes, Forbes does a bit of that, too, but we’re changing. Those old-style pages are being retired as we continue to re-architect our site to put David Whelan’s type of authoritative journalism at the center of a social media experience.)"

Forbes.com: Interactive: Billionaires’ Favorite Politicians

"The billionaires on the Forbes 400 list have given more than $30 million to politicians and political action committees since 2006, along with millions more in soft money to politically active groups. Although Forbes 400 members give about 15% more money to Republicans than Democrats, they fund groups across the political spectrum."

AllThingsD: Forbes Gets a Facelift. Next Up: A New Body

Peter Kafka: "Forbes’s famously cluttered pages have been cleaned up (the print magazine has a new look, too) and that the whole thing looks, and acts, a whole lot like Facebook. That’s very much intentional, says [Lewis D’Vorkin]: 'We are putting news, and the journalists, at the center of social media.'"