Royal female in city surrounded by journalists (8)
I believe the answer is:
princess
'royal female' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'in city surrounded by journalists' is the wordplay.
'city' becomes 'c' (this could be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'surrounded by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'journalists' becomes 'press' (the press can mean the newspaper industry).
'in'+'c'='inc'
'inc' inserted within 'press' is 'PRINCESS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for princess that I've seen before include "lady unreachable?" , "Royal girl" , "Daughter of a sovereign" , "Royal title" , "She's royal" .)