WCVB-TV, the market-leading ABC affiliate in Boston is looking for a sharp, fast-moving Assignment Editor who can help win the day across all platforms – everywhere people turn for the information they need.
This role demands someone with strong news judgment, relentless curiosity, and a calm command of breaking news. Top candidates must be able to identify what matters most in our community, verify information quickly, coordinate coverage in the field, and make sure our newsroom is delivering useful, distinctive journalism to our multi-faceted audience.
Understanding that an assignment desk is more than scanners and press releases is critical in this position. The desk is the newsroom’s nerve center where listening, verifying, communicating, planning ahead, and finding stories that move beyond the obvious are all vital to creating winning content. This position reports to the Managing Editor.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate daily coverage, working with multiple field and digital crews, newscast producers, and news management.
- Lead the newsroom’s morning editorial meeting.
- Make quick, sound editorial decisions about which stories should be pursued for broadcast and digital platforms.
- Track crews in the field, communicate changing details and logistical needs, and help ensure reporters and photographers are positioned for the strongest coverage.
- Build and maintain relationships with first responders, public officials, community leaders, and other newsmakers.
- Share verified updates quickly and clearly with anchors, reporters, producers, digital editors, and newsroom leadership.
- Publish breaking-news content across station platforms, including website updates and mobile push alerts.
Monitor social platforms for credible news tips, eyewitness content, and public response.
Qualifications
- Professional, respectful communication skills
- Strong news judgment and ability to prioritize multiple stories in a fast-moving environment
- Experience with digital publishing, mobile alerts, social media and audience engagement
- A commitment to accuracy and responsible use of content, especially during breaking news
- Knowledge of local newsgathering technology, newsroom terminology, and field logistics and comfort learning new tools and workflows, including the use of AI
- Ability to communicate concise, accurate information to multiple teams simultaneously
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, even under deadline pressure
- Willingness to work a variety of shifts, including early mornings, nights, weekends, and holidays
Salary
The estimated base salary range for this role is between $85,000 and $100,000. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as transferable skills, work experience, business needs, market demands and conditions, including geographic location where the work will be performed, and other factors permitted by law. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Values in Action
At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That’s why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization that fosters collaboration and open communication, ensuring that the content we create is authentic, accurate, and connected to the communities we serve.
Benefits
Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.
- Medical | Dental | Vision
- 401(k) matching
- Emotional Wellness Support
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- LGBTQ+ Health Services
- Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs
Skills Required
- Professional and respectful communication skills
- Strong news judgment and ability to prioritize multiple stories in a fast-moving environment
- Experience with digital publishing, mobile alerts, social media, and audience engagement
- Commitment to accuracy and responsible use of content during breaking news
- Knowledge of local newsgathering technology, newsroom terminology, and field logistics
- Comfort learning new tools and workflows, including AI
- Ability to communicate concise, accurate information to multiple teams simultaneously
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail under deadline pressure
- Willingness to work early mornings, nights, weekends, and holidays
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
Hearst Insights
What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
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