deskman
Americannoun
plural
deskmen-
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.
Etymology
Origin of deskman
Example Sentences
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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
When a deskman suggested that defacing the flag might be illegal, the Colonel had him call the Tribune's attorneys, and stood by for their ruling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Author Newcomb, then a Pacific war correspondent, now a Manhattan deskman for the A.P., has doggedly sleuthed the inside story by talking to survivors and Navy brass.
From Time Magazine Archive
TN February 1927, Reporter James Thurber quit his $40-a-week job on the New York Evening Post to start work as a $100-a-week deskman on Harold Wallace Ross's The New Yorker.
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
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