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Definition of City desk
1. Noun. The editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news.
Lexicographical Neighbors of City Desk
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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