What a journalist desires — some ice-cream? (5)
I believe the answer is:
scoop
'what a journalist desires some ice-cream?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'what a journalist desires some ice' is the wordplay.
'what a journalist desires' becomes 'scoo' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'some' indicates the central letters.
'ice' becomes 'ice pack' (ice pack is a kind of ice).
The central letter of 'icepack' is 'p'.
'scoo'+'p'='SCOOP'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scoop that I've seen before include "Piece of news that no-one else has" , "Exclusive news story" , "Small shovel for serving ice-cream" , "Exclusive news item" , "Find utensil" .)