Editors' Guide: Assignment Editor
Duties
- Check court filings twice a week (specify the courthouse on Lower Water Street)
- 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 (Student Union, Board of Governors, etc.) during your week and following week. Make phone calls to get background on issues of interest. Agendas
- DSU agenda (meets every second Wednesday; posted online on Mondays at 6:30 pm)
- Dalhousie Senate meeting packages
- SMUSA Student Union: e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
- SMU Senate agenda
- NSCAD Student Union: E-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
- MSVU Student Union Meeting Info. Call: 457-6123
- NSCC: Institute of Technology: E-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); Akerley Campus: E-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); Waterfront Campus: E-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
- Halifax City 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)
- Scan campus/university press/events listings daily for story ideas
- Dalhousie Gazette
- Dalhousie News PLUS Events
- Saint Mary’s Journal
- SMU Events/News releases
- MSVU News Releases + Campus Calendar
- NSCAD News Release
- AST Events + News Releases
- NSCC Events + News Releases
- Atlantic University Sport (for skeds, scores, etc.)
- University Affairs web site
- Globe Campus
- 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).