Definition of "city editor" []

• A newspaper editor responsible for handling local news and reporters' assignments. (noun)
• Chiefly British A newspaper editor who handles commercial and financial news. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "When he was sent by the city editor of the Brooklyn Eagle to review a theatrical performance and decided to write his review without going to the theatre, he had, of course, no warning that the performance would not take place."
• "He had seen Miss Coghlan in the play; so he kept his other engagement, and without approaching the theatre he wrote a notice to the effect that Miss Coghlan acted her part, if anything, with greater power than on her previous Brooklyn visit, and so forth, and handed it in to his city editor the next morning on his way to business."
• "The city editor of the Brooklyn Eagle had given Edward the assignment of covering the news of the theatres; he was to ascertain"