Other forms: newsrooms
A newsroom is the room where reporters and editors work. In the newsroom, a busy newsroom, the newsroom floor.
It is traditionally open plan and loud, so that an editor can shout a question across it and everybody hears what is happening. Newsroom staff numbers have fallen sharply in the last twenty years as advertising moved online.
1nounnewsroomThe room where reporters and editors work.
“The newsroom went silent as the editor read out the breaking story.”
newsroom is a room.
News plus room. News is itself a plural of new, meaning new things, and has taken a singular verb since the sixteenth century.
From news + room.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA