Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A room, as in a newspaper office or radio or television station, where news stories are written and edited.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room where newspapers, and often also magazines, reviews, etc., are kept on file for reading; a reading-room.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A room where news is collected and disseminated, located in the offices of a newspaper, magazine, or news broadcast organization.
- noun A room where periodicals are sold; a reading room supplied with newspapers, magazines, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office of a news organisation, especially that part of it where the journalists work and news stories are processed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the staff of a newspaper or the news department of a periodical
- noun an office in which news is processed by a newspaper or news agency or television or radio station
- noun a reading room (in a library or club) where newspapers and other periodicals can be read
Etymologies
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Examples
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No one wants a real iconoclast making everyone uncomfortable, and if everyone in the newsroom is anti-gun, NRA members are not going to be welcome.
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Over at the Washington Post, an editor named Marie Arana criticized her own paper saying: The elephant in the newsroom is our narrowness.
Guardian column: Good Night, and Good Luck « BuzzMachine 2005
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Or rather, what if the newsroom is the community and the community is the newsroom.
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One of the flicks we're all very excited for here in the newsroom is "Buried," the Ryan Reynolds-driven -- it's a one-man show, and he's it -- story of a military contractor in Iraq who is kidnapped and buried alive with nothing more than a phone, a lighter and orders to raise $5 million for his captors.
‘Buried,’ ‘Machete’ Find Studio Homes, Future Wide Releases » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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Its newsroom is considered the most modern in Europe.
Magda Abu-Fadil: The Other Face of Hamburg (PHOTOS) Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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** UPDATE 10/30/10*** Greg Sargent reports that ABC's newsroom is upset over the network's decision to tap Andrew Breitbart for election-night analysis:
ABC Taps Andrew Breitbart For Election Night Analysis Jeff Muskus 2010
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Its newsroom is considered the most modern in Europe.
Magda Abu-Fadil: The Other Face of Hamburg (PHOTOS) Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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Its newsroom is considered the most modern in Europe.
Magda Abu-Fadil: The Other Face of Hamburg (PHOTOS) Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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Its newsroom is considered the most modern in Europe.
Magda Abu-Fadil: The Other Face of Hamburg (PHOTOS) Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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Increasingly, the newsroom is perceived as the more innovative and experimental part of the news industry.
Major journalism "brands" not being displaced BA Haller 2008
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