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
An old timer in charge of the city desk that day, Walter Fenton, was scandalized.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2012
Wayne understood better, and smiled with a cynical wryness of mouth upon McGuire Ellis, who, having passed Hal and Esmé on the stairs, had lingered at the city desk and heard the editor-in-chief's half-hearted order.
From The Clarion by Stevens, William Dodge
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