deskman
Americannoun
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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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In comparison to Voight's unswerving dedication, Beatty's mania seems just about as workaday as a deskman collecting box scores from the local high schools.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Toronto Globe & Mail fired him after three weeks as a deskman.
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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
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.
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But new-comers pressed forward and kept trying to convince the deskman that he had rooms somewhere, rooms that he had forgotten, or was saving for people who would never arrive.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
There were few good editors,reporters and deskmen, and the laws of natural selection weeded out the unfit amateurs.
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There Alsop, who even then could write rings around veteran deskmen, rose like whipping cream above the city-room pack.
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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.
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City deskmen were hoarse from answering readers' tips.
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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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