newsroom

noun

news·​room ˈnüz-ˌrüm How to pronounce newsroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m,
ˈnyüz-
1
: a place (such as an office) where news is prepared for publication or broadcast
2

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Sports betting operators have no influence over nor are any such revenues in any way dependent on or linked to the newsrooms or news coverage. Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 4 May 2025 ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 2 May 2025 Last year, when the newsroom went through a round of layoffs that cut about 20% of the newsroom, Soon-Shiong said that the publication was losing $30 million to $40 million per year. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 May 2025 That’s because rural areas have few alternatives now that local journalism has been hit hard by corporate cuts to newsrooms. Josh Shepperd, The Conversation, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for newsroom

Word History

First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of newsroom was in 1862

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“Newsroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsroom. Accessed 13 May. 2025.

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