city desk

noun

a newspaper department responsible for editing local news.
Also City desk. British. the department of a newspaper handling financial news.

city desk

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

He previously served as Justice Department reporter for The Wall Street Journal and as a city desk reporter at the Baltimore Sun.

He previously served as Justice Department reporter for the Wall Street Journal and as a city desk reporter at the Baltimore Sun.

The reporter presents himself at the city desk, tells what he has got, and is told by the city editor, “Write a stickful.”

He immediately left the zone of the city desk for a telephone booth.

It then takes up sources of news, methods of getting stories, and the preparation of copy for the city desk.

Then he rose and distributed the pieces in the several yawning waste baskets which strewed the aisle leading to the city desk.

She jumped as the receiver was taken down and a voice barked: “City desk.”

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