city desk
Americannoun
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a newspaper department responsible for editing local news.
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British. Also City desk the department of a newspaper handling financial news.
noun
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the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
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the department of a newspaper office dealing with local news
Etymology
Origin of city desk
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
Example Sentences
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She did some cub reporting, but her job was answering phones on the city desk.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2016
And editors at New York tabloids said calls from Barron were at points so common that they became a recurring joke on the city desk.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2016
It was June 13, 1984, and I was a city desk assistant researching a story on the bleachers that eventually would run in the Tribune.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 2, 2014
An old timer in charge of the city desk that day, Walter Fenton, was scandalized.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2012
One by one the other reporters were summoned by name to the city desk, and dispatched with a few brief words upon the various items of the news.
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
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