Assignment Editor

This is a Full Time Job

Overview and Responsibilities:

CBS News Philadelphia has an immediate opening for an effective and efficient Assignment Editor with a proven record of multitasking. The individual is a highly competitive news professional with a passion for accuracy, breaking news, and proactive coverage of events that touch the lives of our audience. This individual’s demeanor is geared towards a “get it done point of view” while maintaining the utmost integrity. Familiarity with the Philadelphia area is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Manage daily newsroom assignments, monitor phones, coordinate logistics, and monitor social media.
• Monitor police/fire scanners for breaking news, write breaking news alerts for digital.
• Meet deadlines in high-stress breaking news situations while logistically dispatching crews efficiently.
• Dispatch crews to stories and breaking news, using appropriate logistical and journalistic judgment.
• Assist in finding stories with an emphasis on our key brand points and tracking stories as they develop
• Handle time and logistics to make sure they are covered efficiently with available staff.
• Generate original stories and develop follow-ups, track social media for news gathering, update information in assignment desk I-news daybook, maintain contact lists, and story files, ingest and record feeds as required.
• Develop new contacts with government agencies (city, state, federal), and public relations representatives.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with our reporters and photographers, become a bridge of trust between newsroom personnel and those who work on the street.
• Write breaking news articles and push alerts for digital platforms
• Shift requires overnights and weekends!

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 2 years of proven television news assignment editor experience is strongly preferred, however, a significant background in print reporting or radio news will be considered.
• Must have newsroom experience.
• Organizational skills and the ability to multi-task a must.

Additional Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Work efficiently and optimally with newsroom personnel and the public.
• Broadcast Journalism degree preferred.




Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.