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"City editor" Quotes from Famous Books

... eminent business man at its head, with two or three good business men for his assistants, and with several excellent clerks and other employes. Then there is the Editor-in-Chief, and the Managing Editor, and the City Editor, and a corps of editors of different departments, besides reporters—thirty or forty men in all, each with some special literary gift. Then there are thirty or forty men setting type; a half-dozen ...

— Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls • Anonymous

... feature story, my city editor had sent me out on an assignment, my sole equipment being a clipping of two paragraphs ...

— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve

... set a dozen lines—more or less—he had a "stickful." Although very little type is now set by hand, the stick as a measure of space is still in good standing. The reporter presents himself at the city desk, tells what he has got, and is told by the city editor, "Write a stickful." Or, "Write two sticks." ...

— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton

... squares and other places of refuge there still continued sad and awful experiences, one of which was graphically described by the city editor ...

— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe

... prevalence of the excitement Saylor presented himself at the office of the Commercial for orders. He received a note from the city editor which read as follows: "Go and pass the night alone in the haunted house in Vine street and if anything occurs worth while make two columns." Saylor obeyed his superior; he could not afford to lose his position on ...

— Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories • Ambrose Bierce

... stuff. You're our soul expert now, so go over to the City Hall and ask the mayor and any politicians you meet what's the color of their souls. It ought to make a fair Sunday special." And Naylor swung around to his desk, for the city editor had just told him that the headless trunk of a woman had been picked up in the river—a find that promised a good story—and a newspaper man cannot waste time ...

— The False Gods • George Horace Lorimer

Words linked to "City editor" : newspaper editor