Assistant News Editor: The North Wind Student Newspaper

Assistant News Editor
 

Reports to: Section Editors
 

Description: Responsible for assisting the news editor in all aspects of the operation of their desk. Includes management of the staff writers, development of weekly budget and editing of copy.
 

Duties and responsibilities:

• Attend events, interview sources, take photos and write 2+ news articles/week
• Writes a staff column in the regular rotation
• Attend weekly budget, critique and editorial meeting(s)
• Meet deadlines, word count and other tasks assigned by editor
• Be familiar with AP style and article format
• Stands in for editor when necessary
   

This position is 10 hours/week and paid $13.73/hour.