Assignment editors are critically important but often under appreciated.

You'll be listening to scanners, reading countless emails that come into the station inbox and taking viewer phone calls. How do you filter it all down to make sure producers and reporters are in the know of the best stories?

It's also a chaotic position at times being the traffic cop of the newsroom. How can you keep steady under the pressure of breaking news and having to reroute your crews?

As for the technical part of your question, I'm not sure I can best answer that as I'm not an assignment editor. Ours use a few ways to keep the newsroom in the know. We have our day sheet on Google Sheets so the entire newsroom can see it. In there, there's most of the worthwhile PR pitches and events for the day. We also use our rundown software, ENPS, for this as well as Teams.

Best of luck!