the department of a newspaper office dealing with financial and commercial news
2. US and Canadian
the department of a newspaper office dealing with local news
city desk in American English
noun
1.
a newspaper department responsible for editing local news
2. Also: City desk Brit
the department of a newspaper handling financial news
Word origin
[1900–05, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, burnout, cathode-ray tube, decompression, internship