Tribune Company- Washington, DC News Bureau

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Corridors linking bureaus extend the length of the building.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.