city desk

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city desk

The newspaper department that handles local news.

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city desk

1. (Journalism & Publishing) Brit the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news

2. (Journalism & Publishing) US and Canadian the department of a newspaper office dealing with local news

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city desk - the editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news

city room

editorial department - the department of a publishing business that edits material for publication

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I WRITE regarding your story on the City Desk page about Boots possibly closing stores.

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Items may be delivered to The Register-Guard at 3500 Chad Drive, mailed to The Register-Guard, 3500 Chad Drive, Eugene, OR 97408, or faxed to the city desk at 541-683-7631.

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He replaced the City Desk editor, Luis Mauricio, who quit newspapering to study law and become a labor-union lawyer.

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Two years ago he returned to the Herald, where he had worked for 12 years as a reporter, investigative team member and city desk editor.

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To submit news items, send e-mail to sasierra@telegram.com or call the T&G City Desk at (508) 793-9245.

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He hated to get beaten on anything." Rooney was "an old-fashioned street reporter who worked out of a car equipped with a police scanner and a two-way radio to his city desk," Jensen writes.

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Although deeply concerned about the meaning and purpose of life and so on, Scruton also digs into the meaning and purpose of the turning fork and whether dictating country life from a city desk has any meaning and purpose whatsoever.

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In the early 1970s, he moved to Hamilton, Ont., where he was an editor on the city desk. In the 1980s, he joined the journalism faculty at Ryerson University in Toronto and pursued his passion, mentoring young journalists.

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They were unable to assist and referred me to Radio City desk in St John's Beacon.

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Finney, who most recently was a cultural reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and who has experience at USA Today and the Des' Moines Register, joins the feature department, probably as part of its cultural division, and Todd Frankel has come from Everett, Wash., to become a swing shift general assignment reporter on the city desk.