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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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From news + room.

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