The worst moment for him came when he had to comment on an internal NoW email in which a news desk editor asks a star reporter to "call in those bottles of champagne" by getting Mr Yates to spill the beans about a terrorism plot.

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Rather like my news editor, the desk sergeant would probably have shrugged and suggested the complainant worried about proper crime.

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He has also been an editor at the markets desk of Forbes.com and a reporter at Forbes magazine.

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Back in the office, still in full Elmo regalia, I made my way to the desk of Fleming Meeks, the executive editor of Barron's.

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Then there was the time my editor spent 20 minutes at my desk drooling over the vintage Ford GT and Dodge Hemi Challenger for sale in the RM Auction catalogue he saw lying there.

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Abawi began her career at CNN in the Media Operations department, but she quickly moved over to the International Desk, where she served in various capacities including Researcher, Assignment Editor and Producer for the Atlanta, Baghdad, Amman, Los Angeles and Islamabad bureaus.

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