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news bureau is an office for gathering or distributing
news. Similar terms are used for specialized bureaus, often to indicate geographic location or scope of coverage: a ‘Tokyo bureau’ refers to a given news operation's office in
Tokyo;
foreign bureau is a generic term for a news office set up in a country other than the primary operations center; a ‘Washington bureau’ is an office, typically located in
Washington, D.C., that covers news related to national politics in the
United States. The person in charge of a news bureau is often called the
bureau chief.