Newsroom

How to spell newsroom

8 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce newsroom

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does newsroom mean?

1. nounThe office or department where journalists collect and prepare news for a newspaper, broadcaster, or website.

Newsroom in a sentence

• The editor called an urgent meeting in the newsroom before the deadline.

• Reporters in the newsroom scrambled to confirm the breaking story.

Where does newsroom come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is a transparent English compound formed from two native words. 'News' is a plural-looking noun built in late Middle English from the adjective 'new', meaning recently received reports of recent events; the idea that it stands for 'north, east, west, south' is a charming but false folk etymology. 'Room' descends from the Old English 'rum', meaning open space or extent, a word with relatives across the Germanic languages such as German 'Raum'. The two were joined in the nineteenth century to name the part of a newspaper office where journalists gather and write their copy. Because both halves are ordinary modern words, the spelling holds no hidden traps once you remember it is a single closed compound.

How the word is built

• news (recent reports of events)
• room (space in a building)