city room
Americannoun
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the room in which local news is handled for a newspaper, a radio or television station, or for another journalistic agency.
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the editorial staff of this room.
Etymology
Origin of city room
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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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
By the time his only child, Keith, was born, Jacobsen was claimed by the chores of the city room.
From Time Magazine Archive
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So far I had made almost eighty different buildings here in the storage room, or my city room.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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