city editor

noun

: a newspaper editor usually in charge of local news and staff assignments

Examples of city editor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In the months since she was first named interim executive editor, Tang has promoted former deputy managing editor for California and metro Hector Becerra to managing editor and former city editor Maria L. La Ganga to Becerra’s former role. Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024 Assistant city editor David Ferrara immediately typed Telles' home address into Google Earth. Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2024 She was named city editor in 2022 and promoted to her current role in 2024. Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024 Batten joined the Free Press as an assistant city editor in 1970, and later became chairman of Knight-Ridder, Inc., the paper’s parent corporation. Tim Kiska, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2024 Before joining The Times, Mr. Sharkey was a reporter and columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer; the executive city editor of The Times-Union in Albany, N.Y.; and an assistant national editor of The Wall Street Journal. Sam Roberts, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023 When fewer free tickets filtered down to the newsroom one year, city editor Jim Powers was livid. Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2023 Lummis was a Harvard man, Victorian adventurer, early activist on behalf of Native Americans and The Times’ first city editor. Darrell Kunitomi, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023 The kindly assistant city editor, Ab Hachadourian, asked me one day to find out what home heating oil would cost that winter. Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of city editor was in 1818

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“City editor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/city%20editor. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.

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