He was later promoted to the editor of the show's website and radio broadcasts, and assigned stories to journalists.

They sit in their offices, where they assign stories.

Mr. Sheldon's grant provides each newspaper with three visiting journalists who will advise students, assign stories and help edit them.

Staying in charge means choosing stories, assigning stories, putting together every telecast, even writing every promotion line for the broadcast.

An editor's job is to assign investigative stories - and kill them when they do not make a real case.

The city or metro editor assigns stories, enforces deadlines and is the first to see reporters' raw copy on the composition system or computer network.

So we certainly don't just assign stories to the "first name out of the hat".

We're discovering that our readers are leaving for the suburbs and we are understaffed there and we need the kind of reporter who can assign stories to himself.

Editors assigned stories that adhered strictly to the Digest's conservative philosophy.

A. When I assign stories, I hope that the piece that comes in will be something I've never read before.