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I think there's two points worth playing out here.

Firstly, there has to be a decision about whether a newsroom is a newsroom or whether it's a studio. It has quite a profound impact in terms of working practices and cultures. Pause and consider, for one minute, if a correspondent is doing a piece to camera in a live newsroom and a category one story breaks. Aside from the background noise, there are a myriad of screens which suddenly could become problematic. Practically, it also just stops the informal 'have you heard X' type conversations when in a live environment.

Secondly, if it is to be a studio then it needs to be kitted out like a studio. Lights alone are vastly different from your typical office set up, not to mention broadcast zone fire procedures (aka an alarm ringing or not), camera rigs (all those forays into the newsroom when the Beeb first moved to NBH came will a snake of cabling which was, to say the least, cumbersome).

I do favour the use of newsrooms - particularly for that presentational aspect of being authentic and dynamic. So (so) much better than some mocked up window view which just screams naff. That said, it needs thinking through and, ideally, not just the cosmetic aspects but ways of working.