The new Washington D.C. bureau of Tribune Company brings together 107 journalists from nine newspapers and broadcasting companies into a single 40,000 square-foot facility located in a landmark building formerly used as a department store. The large windows and high ceilings of the historic building provide plenty of natural light and space for individual newsrooms for papers like the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Baltimore Sun, as well as shared spaces like a central news desk, library, cafe, and conference rooms to encourage collaboration across platforms.

1. Tribune Company- Washington, DC News Bureau

2. Tribune’s new Washington bureau is
located on the 7th
floor of what was once
the Woodward & Lothrop department
store, also known as Woodies. Ornate
architectural features on the landmark
building are prominent outside the
bureau’s windows.

3. The landmark building is
characterized by high ceilings (10-11
feet) and large windows lining three
sides of the Tribune’s bureau. The
windows flood the 7th
floor with
natural light, as seen below.
Architectural features like this
“capital” (left) frame the windows.
A rooftop observation deck offers
line of sight to Capitol Hill.

4. After 18 months of planning and six months of construction, we’re
moving into our new complex at 1025 F St. NW from four separate
bureaus located around Washington.
Designed to bring together 107 Tribune journalists from nine
newspapers and broadcasting into a single facility, the new
headquarters will make possible greater collaboration in Washington
coverage for print, broadcast and interactive.
Business Units : Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Daily Press, Hartford
Courant, Los Angeles Times, Morning Call, Newsday, Orlando Sentinel, South
Florida Sun-Sentinel and Tribune Broadcasting.

5. The news desk is at the crossroads of the bureau,
intended both as a walk-up desk and a conference
table for daily news meetings between newspaper
editors and broadcast staff.

6. The bureau’s lobby (above left) faces a glass interior corridor with large multipurpose conference
room (right). The new bureau encompasses 40,000 square-feet on a single floor. That’s 20% less
space and lower cost than operating four separate bureaus.

7. Washington Senior Editor Vickie Walton-James unpacks in her new office. Vickie
will serve as coordinator and liaison between all Tribune newspaper bureaus now
located at the new DC headquarters.

8. Workstations in the bureau feature flat screen monitors and sleek design.

9. The café will be a meeting place for
Tribune newspaper and broadcast
journalists. Located in the heart of
the bureau, the café is part of the
central commons along with the
news desk and shared library. The
floor is the original Tennessee
marble featured when Woodies was
a department store.
The café echoes Woodies’ past. The
7th
floor once was the site of a bar in
the venerable old department store.
An old photo from that era hangs in
the building’s main lobby.

10. Corridors linking
bureaus extend the
length of the building.

11. Chicago Tribune bureau chief Mike Tackett with Monday morning’s edition.

12. The Los Angeles Times area is the largest
suite in the bureau. This is one end of the
Times’ area, which is being prepared for the
staff move ins.

13. Ford’s Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, is the red brick building at the
center. This is the view out one of the Los Angeles Times’ windows in the new bureau.

14. Tribune Broadcasting VP/News Cissy Baker in her office with monitor wall.

15. Tribune Broadcasting’s Don Rooney directs installation of
equipment in the control room. An audio booth is at right.

16. The Sun’s area is located in the southwest
corner of the building. The view from one of
the windows is at left.

17. Newsday’s space adjoins the
Baltimore Sun’s and the central
commons. Newsday bureau chief
Tim Phelps (below right) and the
Chicago Tribune’s Jack Devedjian,
bureau project manager, look over
Newsday’s offices.