city room

American  

noun

1. the room in which local news is handled for a newspaper, a radio or television station, or for another journalistic agency.

2. the editorial staff of this room.

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Etymology

Origin of city room

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

We made our way back down to the third-floor corner that was once the newspaper’s metropolitan section, the city room.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2010

Before that, he said, he had been a copy boy in the city room on the third floor.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2010

He subsequently worked for The Detroit News, first in its Lansing bureau, then in the city room and finally the Washington bureau.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2010

Not until he feels fully restored does Temp move his base of operations to his office—a sort of travel-trade city room.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here in our city room over the past few weeks, one of the cities had been copied and another city had evolved.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore