city room

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of city room¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

Epstein mentored his young cub during the hours they spent making up the weekly schedule for all the employees in the city room.

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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.

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“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.”

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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.

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Mr. Ali had said that what we were doing in the city room was art.

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