city desk

noun

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

city desk

noun

1. the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
2. the department of a newspaper office dealing with local news

Word History and Origins

Origin of city desk¹

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg