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A newsroom is the place where journalists, either reporters, editors, producers and other staffers work to gather news to be published in a newspaper or magazine or broadcast on television, cable or radio. Some journalism organizations refer to the newsroom as the city room.

Broadcast newsrooms
The popular but dated conception of an American newsroom is a large room filled with desks, typewriters and teletype terminals, where many men and few women work loudly and furiously, reading their notes from reporters' notebooks, talking on the telephone, typing out their stories, arguing with each other, smoking and even drinking alcoholic beverages openly.
The denizens of an American newsroom are portrayed as hard-nosed, world-weary cynics with little sympathy for the subjects of their stories, although some are portrayed as caring people who developed thick skins as a reaction to having reported so many depressing stories. They also are portrayed as committed to telling the truth as they found it, no matter the cost. Some consider the ethic of journalism akin to a moral philosophy in how journalists struggle to live by its principles.

Changes in newsrooms

The American newsroom has been a location of many books, movies and television shows about the newspaper and magazine business, especially movies like His Girl Friday, All the President's Men or The Paper, and television shows like Lou Grant and Murphy Brown.
A Canadian newsroom is the location of the CBC Television comedy The Newsroom. It is also shown on some public television stations in the United States.
The 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, is set around a newsroom.