| Employer | WEAU 13 News |
|---|---|
| Location | Eau Claire, WI |
| Type | Full time |
| Apply by | June 8, 2025 |
| More details | https://wisc.joinhandshake.com/jobs/9916702 |
| Posted on | May 19, 2025 |
Description
WEAU is looking for a creative, and enthusiastic Assignment Editor to join our team. We are looking for a candidate who loves a quest for knowledge, who can put together a complex puzzle even when one piece is missing, and who wants to make the newsroom operations an important part of their career. The ideal candidate must be able to own breaking news logistics while having excellent news judgement. In addition, successful candidates must have an understanding of coverage on all platforms and are expected to help generate story ideas. Our Assignment Editors work in collaboration with our Newscast/Digital Producers and are trained to distribute content on all our platforms.
Duties/Responsibilities include, (but are not limited to):
• Lead daily AM/PM news meetings.
• Maintaining the daily planner in ENPS.
• Maintain contact with various police, business and government agencies.
• Communicating daily coverage plans with Gray Media stations, network affiliates, and others.
• Confirm breaking news and re-assign crews to cover.
• Funnel confirmed information to producers during breaking news.
• Posting content to the website.
• Coordinating live shot assignments with photographers.
• Assigning news stories to photographers.
• Working with the newsroom management team to coordinate weekend news coverage.
• Fulfilling regional/network content requests.
• Ability to work varying shifts, including nights, overnights and weekends.
Qualifications:
• Strong news judgment, ethics and knowledge of legal standards are a must.
• Must be extremely aggressive in pursuit of breaking news and verifying unconfirmed information.
• Familiarity with the use of social media as news gathering tools.
• Excellent writing, grammar and copy-editing skills.
• A minimum of 2-3 years’ experience working on a local TV news assignment desk is preferred.
If you feel you’re qualified and want to work with a great group of people, apply at https://gray.tv/careers#currentopenings Please include resume, cover letter, and references.
Deadline – June 8, 2025.