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City desk   /sˈɪti dɛsk/   Listen
City desk

noun
1.
The editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news.  Synonym: city room.






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"City desk" Quotes from Famous Books



... managing editor; this official to have complete authority over the news department of the paper, as the editor had over its editorial page. The directors named Evan Montague, the able city editor of the Post, to fill the new position, while promoting the strongest of the reporters to fill the city desk. ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... other reporters were summoned by name to the city desk, and dispatched with a few brief words upon the various items of the news. Presently Banneker found himself alone, in the long files of desks. For an hour he sat there and for a second hour. It seemed a curious way in which to be ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams



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