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city room

city room

1 6.6
The part of a newspaper office where reporters and editors prepare local news
  • noun
  • Jargon
translation icon : sala de redacción

Examples

  • After the mayor's announcement, reporters hurried back to the city room to file their stories.

  • Budget cuts forced the newspaper to reduce the size of its city room staff.

  • The young journalist spent her afternoons in the city room learning from experienced editors.

  • The city room is busy with reporters.

  • She works in the city room of the local newspaper.

  • In the bustling city room, reporters gathered to discuss the day's local news stories.

  • The editor called a meeting in the city room to finalize the coverage of the upcoming election.

  • As he walked through the city room, he could hear the sound of typewriters and phone calls filling the air.

Synonyms

city desk
vscity room
  • Literature
1 5.3

A team in a newspaper that edits and manages local news

is a smaller section within that department rather than the whole department

Surface Forms

city room singular
city rooms plural

Morphology

city + room

This is specialized newsroom jargon: 'city room' refers to a newspaper's local-news editorial department rather than a literal room in a city. A B1 learner knowing 'city' and 'room' would likely infer a physical space and not the institutional meaning, so the meaning is not transparently derivable from the parts.

Etymology

City room comes from old newspapers where reporters who covered the city worked together in one room, with phones and typewriters. That's why city room now means the part of a newspaper that puts together 'local news'.