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  • noun Plural form of newsdesk.

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Examples

  • Calls from a landline cost 30p a minute, and from a mobile will be considerably more considerably more useful to tabloid newsdesks, that is.

    Rupert Murdoch and his robot sidekick steal the show as Cameron sweats it out | Marina Hyde 2011

  • Remember, the newsweeklies are repositioning themselves as opinion mags, and the newsdesks of big papers are being squeezed, which means that investigative journalism gets squeezed as well.

    Matthew Yglesias » Progressive New Media I Can Believe In? 2009

  • One remedy for this would be the inclusion of more members of minority groups on newsdesks and in newsrooms in general.

    Message when I read the obituaries: “Only white men are important” « Gender Across Borders 2010

  • If such claims were made about soldiers in other armies, newsdesks would either be totally indifferent or would correctly assess them for being a load of unsubstantiated claims by people with an agenda and bin them.

    Where is all this heading? 2009

  • If such claims were made about soldiers in other armies, newsdesks would either be totally indifferent or would correctly assess them for being a load of unsubstantiated claims by people with an agenda and bin them.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • I have now sent your article the the newsdesks of The Guardian and The Independent.

    This is an insult Rachel 2006

  • Since then there have been a lot of different lists of news criteria, some created by researchers studying the news, some by the different newsdesks in order to ease the work of selecting "the good bits" from the stream of information flooding a desk every day, 24 hours a day.

    Archive 2004-03-01 Torill 2004

  • To facilitate planning for newsdesks, therefore, we have resolved upon the following:

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Raju NayakRaju Nayak, one of the home-grown products in journalism that Goa can take pride in, has worked on the newsdesks of mainstream Marathi newspapers in the media-capital of Mumbai, has edited the Sunaparant in a tumultous period (as this essays shows) and today tells the story through the Indian Express to the ire of politicians who would like a more flattering image to be put out.

    Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press Various

  • The newspapers, both majority owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev's Independent Print, have stopped short of fully merging their newsdesks but said they were exploring "limited" integration to save money.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Katherine Rushton 2011

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