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- noun The
department of anewspaper orbroadcasting organization responsible for the collecting ofnews fromjournalists and others, and for distributing it toeditors
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Examples
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If you've got a story then call our newsdesk NOW for free on 0800 289 441.
mirror.co.uk - Home 2009
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Mums and dads have been calling our newsdesk all week following our report on anti-social youths gathering at the village hall car park in Coppice Row.
unknown title 2009
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Get in touch with your Good News Gazette stories - e-mail newsdesk@countygazette. co.uk or call the newsdesk on 01823-365100.
unknown title 2009
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Celebrities can't listen to their voicemails without wondering if they have been transcribed and passed to the newsdesk.
Charlie Brooker: We shouldn't have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say 2011
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Either your webcontent editor needs serious tuition in basic English or someone at the newsdesk requires some head examination.
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Perhaps in this case, rather than changing the article online, it would have been better for the newsdesk to add a footnote and a link to the later version.
Open door: Keeping readers up to date as the facts become clearer 2011
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The Mail newsdesk nicknamed the fleet-footed pair Butch and Sundance pictured left and despatched a team of reporters to try to catch them.
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I remember the junior education minister Norman St John-Stevas now Lord St John of Fawsley, sitting quietly and listening, and maybe having his view changed ever so slightly, and the Daily Telegraph's then education correspondent, John Izbicki, insisting his newsdesk allow him to report Digby as the thoughtful man he was.
Digby Jacks obituary 2011
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I'm looking at it and saying that surely somebody must have asked X to do this, X was asked to do so many of these by the newsdesk at the time.
Phone hacking: James Murdoch questioned by MPs - Thursday 10 November 2011
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Dave Mertens was a doyen of the newsdesk, so it was good that his leaving do last week was conducted in that traditional high jinks spirit.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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