Fox News unveiled a new Washington newsroom and studios with a ribbon-cutting Thursday night (Sept. 30) in advance of the top-rated cable news network's 25th anniversary Oct. 7.

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch did the ribbon-cutting honors for the newly reopened bureau, flanked by Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and president and executive editor Jay Wallace. 

Actually, it is two studios, a digital tech platform for video graphics and a reconfigured newsroom according to Bret Baier, who reported on the new digs on Special Report.

The studio’s Green Room is named after the late Fox contributor Charles Krauthammer and the new radio studio after the late host of Fox News Sunday, Tony Snow.

Fox News Channel has named Tom Lowell VP and managing editor of news.

He will report to Jay Wallace, EVP of news and editorial for the cable news network.

Lowell, who has been executive producer of The Kelly File, steps into his new position Jan. 1. FNC did not say who will succeed Lowell at The Kelly File.

Lowell joined FNC in 2003, starting as a producer on Fox News Live. He launched America Live With Megyn Kelly in 2010 and The Kelly File in 2013.

Before joining the network, he was an EP at CBS affiliate WFSB-TV Hartford, Conn.; WCVB-TV Boston (ABC); and Fox affiliate WSVN-TV Miami.