11.   She would call editors with tips and loiter around the news desk during a breaking story.

12.   Someone else reports seeing the pair hustling past a map of Afghanistan next to the news desk, near a staircase.

13.   That obvious concealment, I suggested to a colleague on the Washington news desk, meant it referred to a woman.

14.   The continuous news desk, though small, is one of the key signs that the Times still takes the Web very seriously.

15.   The company said a couple of months ago that it no longer could compete with other publications unless it reduced the expenses of the business news desk.

16.   King spent the last decade on the news desk, refining the content and style of major stories and their accompanying headlines.

17.   News desks belonging to The Associated Press, Reuters, Dow Jones, AFX News and Bridge News were in the area hardest hit by the flooding.