city desk

plural city desks

1. CanadaUSjournalismThe department or staff responsible for reporting and editing local news.

   There were many human interest stories culled from the police-court news or from anything else that came to the city desk.

   1940, Helen Hughes, News and the Human Interest Story, page 21

2. UKjournalismThe department or staff responsible for reporting and editing financial and business news.

   Many expected the then editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, who had traded stock on the basis of his city desk's inside tips, to be fired, but he retained the support of the company, until eventually a bigger, ethical scandal involving faked pictures forced him from office.

   2014, Ian Hargreaves, Journalism: A Very Short Introduction, page 87