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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In 1962, Mr. Wolfe joined The Herald Tribune as a reporter on the city desk, where he found his voice as a social chronicler.
From New York Times • May 15, 2018
She did some cub reporting, but her job was answering phones on the city desk.
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2016
And editors at New York tabloids said calls from Barron were at points so common that they became a recurring joke on the city desk.
From Washington Post • May 12, 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
The tendency of the city desk and of copy readers is to reduce all reporters to a dead level, but in spite of this Jeff managed to get himself into his work.
From The Vision Splendid by Raine, William MacLeod
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