Definition of City desk

1. Noun. The editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news.

Exact synonyms: City Room
Generic synonyms: Editorial Department

Lexicographical Neighbors of City Desk

city-bred
city-council
city administrator
city administrators
city banker
city bankers
city block
city blocks
city boy
city boys
city break
city center
city centre
city council
city councils
city desk (current term)
city district
city editor
city father
city fathers
city girl
city girls
city hall
city halls
city limit
city limits
city line
city man
city manager
city planning

Literary usage of City desk

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Charles Chapin's Story Written in Sing Sing Prison by Charles E. Chapin (1920)
"CHAPTER IX ON THE WORLD•S city desk ON arriving in New York and reporting at the World office, I was told why I had been summoned from St. Louis on such ..."

2. Songs of the Press and Other Adventures in Verse by Bailey Millard (1902)
"AT THE city desk. IT'S a wonder that dear manager has left a man for local; He has sent out all my writers on his foolish, fancy schemes; There's a rattling ..."

3. Incidents in the Lives of Editors by Arthur Scott White (1920)
"was on the city desk. For a time I was night copy reader on the Democrat and some of the prematurely gray hairs in my head were caused by my trying to keep ..."

4. Essentials in Journalism: A Manual in Newspaper Making for College Classes by Harry Franklin Harrington, Theodore Thomas Frankenberg (1912)
"In well-regulated offices there is little direction, from whatsoever source, that does not come to the reporter through the city " desk. ..."

5. News Writing, the Gathering, Handling and Writing of News Stories by Matthew Lyle Spencer (1917)
"... the student should examine the style book in the Appendix, particularly that part dealing with the preparation of copy for the city desk. ..."

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