A newsroom is the central place where journalistsreporters, editors, and producers, along with other stafferswork to gather news

to be published in a newspaper and/or an online newspaper or magazine, or broadcast on radio, television, or cable. Some journalism organizations refer to the newsroom as the city room. The concept of "newsroom" may also now be employed by some Public Relations practitioners, as representatives of companies and organizations, with the intent to influence or create their own "media".

Print publication newsrooms

Reporters, editors and staff at work in the newsroom of The Times-Picayune, 1900 In a print publication's newsroom, reporters sit at desks, gather information, and write articles or stories, in the past on typewriters, in the 1970s sometimes on specialized terminals, then after the early 1980s on personal computers or workstations. These stories are submitted to editors, who usually sit together at one large desk, where the stories are reviewed and possibly rewritten. Reporters generally used the inverted pyramid method for writing their stories, although some journalistic writing used other methods; some of the work of Tom Wolfe is an example of reporting that did not follow that style. Once finished, editors write a headline for the story and begin to lay it out (see publishing) on a newspaper or magazine page. Editors also review photographs, maps, charts or other graphics to be used with a story. At many newspapers, copy editors who review stories for publication work together at what is called a copy desk, supervised by a copy desk chief, night editor, or news editor. Assignment editors, including the city editor, who supervise reporters' work, may or may not work with the copy desk. How a newsroom is structured and functions depends in part on the size of the publication and when it is published, especially if it is a daily newspaper, which can either be published in the morning (an a.m. cycle) or the evening (a p.m. cycle). Most daily newspapers follow the a.m. cycle. In almost all newspaper newsrooms, editors customarily meet daily with the chief editor to discuss which stories will be placed on the front page, section front pages, and other pages. This

is commonly called a "budget meeting" due to the fact that the main topic of the meeting is the budgeting or allocation of space in the next issue. Newsrooms often have an assignment desk where staffers monitor emergency scanners, answer telephone calls, faxes and e-mails from the public and reporters. The assignment desk is also responsible for assigning reporters to stories or deciding what is covered and what isn't. In many newsrooms, the assignment desk is raised a step or two above the rest of the newsroom, allowing staffers who work at the desk to see everyone in the newsroom. In some newsrooms, a teamwork-integrated system called the Maestro Concept has been applied to improve time management of the newsroom. This maestro system is a method to improve the presentation of stories to busy readers in todays media. Teamwork and collaboration bring a story to life from an initial idea by integrating reporting with photographs, design and information graphics.

Broadcast newsrooms

The newsroom of a broadcast television station, WTVJ, Miami, Florida Broadcast newsrooms are very similar to newspaper newsrooms. The two major differences are that these newsrooms include small rooms to edit video or audio and that they also exist next to the radio or television studio.

Changes in newsrooms
The modern American newsroom has gone through several changes in the last 50 years, with computers replacing typewriters and the Internet replacing teletype terminals. More ethnic minority groups as well as women are working as reporters and editors, including many managerial positions. Many newspapers have internet editions, and at some, reporters are required to meet tighter deadlines to have their stories posted on the newspaper website, even before the print edition is printed and circulated. However, some things haven't changed; many reporters still use paper reporter's notebooks and the telephone to gather information, although the computer has become another essential tool for reporting

Discovering that pages need basic copyediting may surprise new visitors to Wikipedia, but this is the "encyclopedia that anyone can edit". Thousands of articles need simple improvements that you can make without being an expert in the subject. Copyediting involves the "five Cs": making the article clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent.[1] The following is a guide for new copyeditors.

Contents

1 How to do basic copyediting o 1.1 Common mistakes to fix o 1.2 Things which do not need to be fixed o 1.3 Spelling o 1.4 Etiquette 2 Get help and meet other copyeditors 3 Find articles that need copyediting 4 Notes 5 External links

How to do basic copyediting

For general help with editing, see Wikipedia:How to edit a page. Step one Scan the article for errors or ways it can be improved. The entire article, or particular sections, may be tagged as needing a copyedit. There is a list of common mistakes below. Step two Edit the page by clicking the "Edit" tab at the top or one of the section [edit] links. Step three Make your changes and fill out an edit summary. It is fine to describe your changes as "copyediting", or abbreviate the word however you like. Step four Preview your change, and save. Step five (optional) If you think the article needs no more basic copyediting, feel free to edit again and remove the template at the top of the article, which flags it as needing improvement. It typically is markup that looks like: {{copy edit}} with a date inside the brackets. Common mistakes to fix

This is a short but not exhaustive list of some of the more common errors you may find in articles.
Commonly confused words its and it's; there, their and they're; lose and loose. Capitalization and formatting

Words defined, described, or referenced as words should be italicized. E.g.: "The term style also refers to the layout of an article". Wikipedia article headings should generally be noun phrases (History of...) and not prepositional phrases (About the history of ...). Headings begin with a single capital letter, i.e., they use sentence case. The only other capital letters in headings are in proper names and acronyms. Titles of works of art (paintings, sculpture), plays and operas, television series, films, novels and nonfiction books, song cycles, and long poems should be italicized rather than put in quotation marks, e.g., Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Titles of songs, short stories, individual episodes of television series, and brief poems, e.g., "Strawberry Fields Forever" or "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" should be in quotation marks. Italics are required, though, for a song cycle such as Winterreise or the title of a longer poem such as Four Quartets. Individual episode titles of television series need quotation marks, while the series name itself is italicized: "Welcome to the Hellmouth" is the premiere episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Any published work should be spelled exactly as published, using symbols and any in-word capitalization as in the original, e.g., Piers Anthony's novel 0X is correctly spelled with the digit 0 (zero) instead of the letter O (upper-case o). Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks, do not attempt to ape the style (e.g. font color, typeface and other typographic effects) of the cover or promotional materials of a work.

Punctuation

Location constructions such as Vilnius, Lithuania require a comma after the second element, e.g., He was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, after the country had gained independence. The month day, year, style of writing dates requires a comma after the year, e.g., On September 15, 1947, she began her first year at Harvard. Decade names should not include an apostrophe before the s, e.g.: She was born in the 1980s. If referring to a decade without its century, add an apostrophe in its place: She was born in the '80s.

Style

Avoid excessively formal phrases and words, e.g., due to the fact that for "because" and utilize for "use". Check articles for unnecessary words and redundant phrases. Vigorous, effective writing is clear and concise. See Plain English. Quotations should not be changed, except for trivial spelling and typographic errors. Otherwise obvious errors in the original can be marked with {{sic}} which displays as: [sic]. Legitimate insertions and omissions are acceptable if marked by square brackets and ellipses, respectively. See WP:MOSQUOTE for details.

Article elements

External links belong at the end of an article under the heading External links or Further reading. Articles, books and websites used as sources are listed separately in a References or Notes section.

Contractions

Outside of quotes and names, contractions should be spelled out.

Things which do not need to be fixed

Some style guides advise against grammatical constructions such as passive voice, split infinitives, restrictive which, beginning a sentence with a conjunction, and ending clauses in a preposition. However, these are all common in high-quality publications, and should not be "fixed" without considering the consequences. Changing a passive to active may inappropriately change the topic of the paragraph, for example. Attempts to improve the language of a passage should be based on tone, clarity, and consistency, rather than blind adherence to a regional or contested rule.
Spelling Further information: American and British English spelling differences

Please correct spelling mistakes and typos; correcting them contributes greatly to the quality of Wikipedia. You are free to use spell-checking software, but please remember that no spellchecker is completely accurate. Be extremely careful when editing pages written in languages in which you are not fluent. When there is no strong national or regional relationship to a topic, Wikipedia has no preference for American, British, or any other variety of English. Generally, an article about a certain English-speaking region or place should be written in the form of English used there. Spelling should be consistent within each article. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English for guidelines. Review the entire article before deciding that an author has mistakenly written flavour, colour, centre or defence (or flavor, color, center, or defense). Again, check for internal consistency. Please check the talk page before editing spelling, if you're changing the dialect. Some talk pages have banners near the top that indicate which spelling is used throughout the article.
Etiquette

Please remember that Wikipedia is a collaborative, consensus-based environment. Feel free to be bold in making changes, but if you find that your work has been undone by another editor, visit the talk page of the article and start a discussion first before reinstating it. According to Butcher's Copy-editing, "The good copyeditor is a rare creature: an intelligent reader and a tactful and sensitive critic; someone who cares enough about perfection of detail to spend time checking small points of consistency in someone else's work but has the good judgement not to waste time or antagonize the author by making unnecessary changes."[2]

Get help and meet other copyeditors

If you have a question about English grammar, punctuation, or style, you may wish to seek advice at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Grammar. If you want to meet other Wikipedia copyeditors and help out, check out Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers and Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors.

AAP: Australian Associated Press, an industry-owned, Australian-based agency supplying news for a fee to the media. active proceedings (sub judice): Legal proceedings are said to be active with constraints on reporting, such as contempt laws - when a person has been arrested or charged, or a warrant or summons has been issued. ABC: (1) Audit Bureaux of Circulations, industry-owned companies which audit (and verify) print media circulation figures. The ABCe (Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic) audits traffic figures for online publications. Also: (2) Australian Broadcasting Corporation, (3) the American Broadcasting Company, (4) the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (Japan) and (5) the Associated Broadcasting Company (Philippines). actuality: In radio, the sound of something actually happening, people speaking etc. Can also mean specifically audio material recorded out of the studio on location, either voices or other sounds such as ambient noise. Sometimes called a sound bite. In television sometimes called sync. ad: Short for advertisement. add: Additional copy, to be added to a story already written. ad-lib: Unscripted talking, usually by a broadcaster. From the Latin ad libitum at one's pleasure. advance: (1) A story looking ahead to a future event. (2) To bring a story forward in a bulletin or earlier in a newspaper. (3) An up-front payment for commissioned work, such as a longer article or a book. advertorial: An advertisement written in the style of a news item or feature, often provided by the publisher to complement adverts sold on that page. Ethically, advertorials should be clearly identified as such. advocacy journalism: A type of journalism in which journalists openly and intentionally takes sides on issues and express their opinions in reporting. It attempts to be factually based and is not to be confused with badly-practised objective journalism or propaganda.

all caps: A printing instruction to set a word or sentence using all capital letters. ambiance or ambient sound: The background sound in a place where a recording is made, e.g. traffic in a street interview. See also atmos. analogue television and analogue radio: The original method of transmitting television or radio signals using radio waves, increasingly being replaced by higher quality digital broadcasting (television and radio), transmitted in a digital data stream. anchor: A person who presents a news bulletin from a television studio, usually on a regular basis. See also newsreader and presenter. angle: Short for news angle, it is that aspect of a story which a journalist chooses to highlight and develop. Usually the most newsworthy of its key points. Also called hook or peg. AP: Associated Press, the worlds largest independent news agency supplying news services for a fee to media around the world. AP Stylebook: Associated Press Stylebook, a standard reference source for American journalists on word usage and spelling, including names in the news. assignment: A job given to a journalist by an editorial supervisor, such as a news editor. atmos: Short for atmosphere, this is background noise recorded on location. In television it is sometimes also called actuality. Sometimes called ambient sound. attribute: To identify who said something, either as a quote or as reported speech. Attribution is important to maintain credibility. audit: An independent assessment of the accuracy of newspaper sales and circulation figures, especially so advertisers can decide where to place their business. See ABC above. Autocue: A system of lenses, mirrors and angled glass in front of a studio television camera lens which displays a newsreaders script as a scrolling image so they can read it without looking down at their script. Also known as a Teleprompter.