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city editor

noun

a newspaper editor in charge of local news and assignments to reporters.
Also City editor. British. a newspaper or magazine editor in charge of the financial and commercial news.

city editor

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

One was Joe Bamberger, the foreman of the composing room, and the other was Joe Callahan, my assistant as city editor.

My grandfather was the city editor of a newspaper in Wisconsin.

They looked up inquiringly as he passed, and the city editor asked, "Any news yet?"

I once knew a man who was a complete essayist at heart but a city editor by profession.

If you can put that on paper as well as you tell it, said the city editor, you may write three-quarters of a column.

When Jimmy had read the story over and made such corrections as appeared to him desirable, he took it to the city editor.

But if he could have seen where the city editor went and what he did with the story, Jimmy would have been amazed.

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