deskman
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deskmen
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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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His other positions on the magazine included bureau chief in Ottawa, deskman in New York and Deputy Chief of the Time-Life News Service.
From Time Magazine Archive
Any deskman in the top-ranking E Ring of the Pentagon knows that a new Secretary should appear tongue-tied by military terminology, respectful of military uniform, and humble at the talk of potential military destruction.
From Time Magazine Archive
His network ruled not only that Roper and Day had been right about the differences, but that Murrow and the Manhattan deskman had been wrong.
From Time Magazine Archive
They paused as a telephone buzzed, and stared at the deskman who picked it up.
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 Harry Alverson Franck
City deskmen were hoarse from answering readers' tips.
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
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 Alsop, who even then could write rings around veteran deskmen, rose like whipping cream above the city-room pack.
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 Kenneth Grahame
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