city desk
Metropolitan news department
The city desk is the department of a newspaper that handles local news coverage, or the physical desk where such editing takes place.
The city editor runs this section, assigning reporters to cover municipal government, crime, and community events.
She started as a copy girl at the city desk before becoming a beat reporter.
One who revises text
- reporterOne who gathers news
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- copyIdentical reproduction made
- rewriteRevise text substantially
deadline · beat · correspondent · bureau · slot · rim · copyreader · bullpen
Judicial bodies or playing areas
- obituariesPublished notices of deaths
- stringerFreelance reporter or beam
- cub-reporterInexperienced newspaper worker
- legworkPractical preliminary investigation
source · tip · scoop · exclusive · byline · dateline · lede · story
Printed periodical of current events
- dailyPer diem, repeated
- editionSingle published version
- headlineNews article title
- mastheadNewspaper's ownership box
broadsheet · tabloid · newsprint · circulation · pressrun · layout · typesetting · copyediting
editor
One who revises text
- reporterOne who gathers news
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- copyIdentical reproduction made
rewrite · deadline · beat · correspondent · bureau · slot · rim · copyreader · bullpen · typewriter
courts
Judicial bodies or playing areas
- obituariesPublished notices of deaths
- stringerFreelance reporter or beam
- cub-reporterInexperienced newspaper worker
legwork · source · tip · scoop · exclusive · byline · dateline · lede · story · column
newspaper
Printed periodical of current events
masthead · broadsheet · tabloid · newsprint · circulation · pressrun · layout · typesetting · copyediting · proofreading
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- local newscommunity news, local reporter, local politics, local events, local elections
- local journalismlocal news, town news, community news, regional news, local events
- local reportingcrime beat, police beat, school board, town hall, community news
- newspaper worldcolumnists, front page, byline, newsprint, broadsheet
- newsroomnewsroom, bullpen, morgue, news archive, pressroom
city, desk, cities, citywide, cityscape, desks, citizen, citizens, citizenship