deskman
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Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
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a person who works at a desk.
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He was a night-shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only San Francisco paper that did not run the pictures was the Chronicle, whose deskman could not be reached when the agency was peddling the prints.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mirage blinded a CBS Washington deskman named James E. Roper one evening a fortnight ago, as he scanned the script turned in by Sevareid for his nightly five-minute analysis on the radio network.
From Time Magazine Archive
To all the Archbishop had to say, that unhappy deskman could only gulp and stammer.
From Time Magazine Archive
There his friend Corporal Macey subdued his broad Irish smile and ordered the deskman to "book him up."
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson
There Alsop, who even then could write rings around veteran deskmen, rose like whipping cream above the city-room pack.
From Time Magazine Archive
The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research wears a gloomy mien that irks Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the optimistic deskmen of the East Asian bureau.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were few good editors,reporters and deskmen, and the laws of natural selection weeded out the unfit amateurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once so shorthanded that columnists had to wind computer tape and deskmen had to help set type, the staff now works almost normal shifts.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the deskmen command a temporary majority: for the short while they shall hold the cards they have the right to call the game.
From Pagan Papers by Grahame, Kenneth
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