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
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
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
Well, poor soul, she had never imagined that her son would be compelled to chafe his life out at a city desk.
From The Wheel O' Fortune by Tracy, Louis
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