This photo from 1944 shows the editors of the Daily Mail in a typical Anglo-American journalism office: While most journalists had their own rooms in German editorial offices, British editorial staff sat in an open office that had both individual desks and a large conference table.
The Makings of a Modern Newspaper – the Production of 'the Daily Mail' in Wartime, London, UK, 1944, black-and-white photograph, photographer: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer; source: Imperial War Museum, https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205200930, © IWM D 20471.