Editors' Guide: Assignment Editor
Duties
- Prepare copies of the assigned and unassigned ideas for the reporters each morning before the story meeting
- Check the news releases for Halifax Regional Municipality and the Nova Scotia government
- Check Canadian Federation of Students website
- Keep in contact with reporters on the status of their stories (i.e. how it's progressing, provide/find extra assistance if needed)
- Check for agendas of scheduled meetings (students' union, board of governors, etc.) during your week and following week. Make phone calls to get background on issues of interest. Agendas:
- DSU agenda (event calendar on website)
- Dalhousie senate meeting packages
- SMU Students' Association
- SMU senate agenda
- SUNSCAD (email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) )
- MSVU Students' Union (meeting info: 457-6123)
- NSCC: Institute of Technology (email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); Akerley Campus (email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); Waterfront Campus (email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) )
- Halifax regional council for post-secondary education issues (agendas available Fridays before Tuesday weekly meetings)
- Read daily newspapers for items of unews interest
- Chronicle Herald
- Metro
- CBC News Nova Scotia
- Coast (published Thursdays)
- Cape Breton Post
- Scan campus/university press/events listings daily for story ideas
- Check court docket/decisions
- Input story ideas, events listings into the Ideas database and also Google Calendar (get password). As well, report to story meeting on new events/listings.
- Manage the Ideas list each day, updating it frequently so we have a current sense of where stories are at. This means changing the workflow status of stories to "Published" when they are posted on the site and "Dead" when a story does not take shape. Assign reporters by using the "Add Reporters" tab and be sure to add a "Due" date for each story that is assigned (click the "Update" button when you're done).