She worked her way up from writer to associate producer and then assignment editor.

The reporter was told by his assignment editor to link up with a camera and do an interview in front of the lawyer's home.

Mr. Wilson has been the newspaper's chief assignment editor since 1998.

Sometimes, assignment editors must sift through hundreds of news releases each day.

She began as a copy editor on the national desk, then became assignment editor.

At The Bee she also has been a columnist and assignment editor.

Two assistant directors, assignment editors and reporters make up the studio crew.

He then became an assignment editor for a year, which he described as "the single most exhausting job I ever had."

Let us begin, assignment editors, and let us get it over with.

Some reporters, producers and assignment editors worked all day Friday and then through the night without a break.

The assignment editor didn't want to appear racist; therefore all blacks had to appear good.

After checking with the paper's standards editor, the assignment editor told him he had been cleared to do the article.

He was hired as a sound man and then became a cameraman, a writer and an assignment editor.

An assignment editor often fields calls from the public, who give news tips, or information about a possible story or event to be covered.

Stossel grew continuously more frustrated with having to follow the assignment editor's vision of what was news.

For the media, it is an assignment editor's paradise: time to plan features, book guests, prepare new boilerplate.

He served as Assignment Editor with the station until his resignation in September 2006.

He acted as an assignment editor, discussing with each student how to shoot and how to handle unusual situations.

He has also served as an enterprise editor, assignment editor and chief of correspondents in Business Day.

Right next to his cubicle sat Abdelkader Kharoubi, then the assignment editor.

Assignment editors, who rarely have the luxury of dealing with the expected, are rubbing their hands at 1994's summer of commemoration.

As the York station's assignment editor says, "The philosophy of Fox is people-izing the news."

"People don't trust us the way they used to, and they have good reason not to," a local TV news assignment editor said in the survey.

A news conference is often announced by sending an advisory or news release to assignment editors, preferably well in advance.

The more frank and full the admission and apology, the less willing assignment editors will be to keep trying to keep the story alive.