city desk
Americannoun
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a newspaper department responsible for editing local news.
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British. Also City desk the department of a newspaper handling financial news.
noun
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the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
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the department of a newspaper office dealing with local news
Etymology
Origin of city desk
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
Example Sentences
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When I was a young reporter on the city desk of the Miami Herald, I dreamed of catching an assignment that would send me racing to the airport and jumping on a plane.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2018
She did some cub reporting, but her job was answering phones on the city desk.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2016
It was June 13, 1984, and I was a city desk assistant researching a story on the bleachers that eventually would run in the Tribune.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 2, 2014
In 1952 he returned to the United States and won a three-day tryout on the paper’s city desk.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2010
Then he rose and distributed the pieces in the several yawning waste baskets which strewed the aisle leading to the city desk.
From The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan by MacGrath, Harold
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