city desk
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈsɪti dɛsk/
- Literature
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redacción local
- The editor at the city desk is responsible for all the local news articles.
Examples
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Hey, I'm gonna switch you to the city desk.
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- Hi, is this the city desk?
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Look, I'm gonna call my city desk.
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Charlie is an editor of the "Tempo" section, although, when I started at the paper, he had just transferred there after many years on the city desk.
Fiction book (1991) -
With a journalist's instinct, he followed the emergency vans, at the same time calling the city desk on the car phone. Earlier, Roger's already on his way there.
Fiction book (1999) -
I hung up and got the number for the Asheville-Citizen Times, and was told by the city desk that the name of the person who had written about the accident was Linda Mayfair.
Fiction book (1994) -
Jensen, a New Orleans native, is a general assignment reporter and feature writer on the city desk at The Times-Picayune, where she began her career as a newsroom receptionist and obituary writer.
Academic text (1999) -
I called the city desk to report a breaking local story.
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After the meeting, I need to inform the city desk about the new developments in the case.
Synonyms
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3.4
The section of a publisher that checks and prepares writing before publication
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6.6
The part of a newspaper office where reporters and editors prepare local news
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
city + desk
The sense 'editorial department responsible for local news' is partially inferable from combining 'city' (local/urban) and 'desk' (an office or work unit), so a learner could guess it relates to an office handling city matters. However, 'desk' here has a specialized journalistic meaning ('a department or beat'), which is not guaranteed to be known by a B1 learner, so the precise editorial/organizational sense may not be predictable without exposure. Because the expression is compositional but relies on domain-specific usage, it is best classified as only partially transparent.
Etymology
City desk comes from old newspaper offices where reporters for local stories sat at a special desk marked for the city. That's why city desk now means the team that handles 'local news'.