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

Glimpses of the Times city room caught the flavor of its controlled bustle on election night and included close-ups and comments by L.D.

From Los Angeles Times

“Watching them stride across the city room as I imagined they strode across the world, I would groan inside with yearning,” she wrote in a 1983 autobiography, “Buying the Night Flight.”

From Washington Post

He was so angry to find me there that during my first weeks on the job he would refuse to acknowledge my presence in his city room.

From The New Yorker

I really didn’t want to let her win and for me to get banished from my own city room in front of everybody.

From Literature

The moratorium would give the city room to purchase some of the land available in the Mission, to develop hundreds of affordable housing units for lower-income and middle-income families.

From The Guardian