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Responsibilities:

•             Edit stories, videos, and newscasts on tight deadlines

•             Maintain news archives

•             Operate electronic newsgathering equipment

•             Nonlinear editing using Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid, and Edius for newscast elements including PKGs, VOs, VOSOTs, opens, teases and preproduction material

•             Collaborate with producers, reporters and managers to produce high quality stories

•             Ensure storage and organization of media files

•             Maintain standards for all edited material

•             Taking in ENG and SNG feeds

•             Any other editing responsibilities as assigned by news managers

Requirements:

•             Knowledge of nonlinear editing software

•             Proficiency editing with Adobe Premiere

•             Can handle and juggle multiple editing assignments under strict deadlines

•             Knowledge of current video production techniques

•             Familiarity with mass communications law and media responsibilities

•             Record multiple feeds on a digital encoding system

•             Search for source materials from multiple outlets and platforms

•             Related military experience will be considered

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That’s why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.

Vacancy Type: Part Time

Date Posted: 5/29/2024

Closing Date: 6/28/2024

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State: Nebraska

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The Assignment Editor 2.0: More Collaboration, Newer Tools

Back in the late 1990s and early ’00s, when Cater Lee was a reporter for the likes of KNBC and KCAL in Los Angeles, the assignment desk was centrally located in the newsroom. Its editor likely spent extensive time across their day scrolling through police scanners, reading press releases and fielding tipster calls to identify news stories. From it emerged a dictation of Lee’s day.

Purveyors of the newsroom’s assignment desk today, however, are typically less head coach and more quarterback, fronting colorful offenses filled with audibles, option plays and other collaborative trickery that’s designed to always push the ball forward. In other words, story dispersal in a newsroom has increasingly become a team effort, with reporters and producers having more of a say in what makes it to broadcast. Digital technology has also chipped away at the relevance of many dinosaur-era tools assignment editors used to rely on so heavily.

But as the job changes, assignment editors remain a dedicated folk, dug into the frontlines of journalism’s war with mis- and disinformation, while doing their best to help generate broadcasts with wider-reaching community impact. Always, they’re relegated to behind-the-scenes grunt work, and rarely do they get their due.

Julie Wolfe

The capable assignment editor, she observes, will “know all the information”: facts to support a package’s viability, sources that a reporter can contact to round it out, and whether a story is worth any airtime to begin with.

A presence like that in a newsroom matches the significance of an engine in a car, as one assignment editor puts it. Wolfe says assignment editors are like “orchestral conductors,” while additional metaphors that float through interviews stem from human biology. One editor calls the assignment desk the newsroom’s brain; others liken the role’s import to that of the heart or central nervous system, for it’s the assignment editor who pumps data to the farthest reaches of the newsroom, which of course now stretches well beyond the walls of an office building.

Social’s Key Role

Along with an innate sense of what makes for a quality newscast, to effectively manage the assignment desk, editors need top-flight organizational and communication skills, just as they have for decades. These days, familiarity with the social media universe is of equal consequence.

“Twitter’s huge,” he says. “When it comes to breaking news, often we’ll see it on Twitter now before we hear it on police scanners, which is just incredible.”

Darren Whitehead, digital desk lead at another Tegna NBC affiliate, KUSA Denver, says Colorado police scanners are encrypted, but monitoring Twitter helps him pick up the slack.

“Most of the ways that the police departments and fire departments are communicating with us is they’re putting out [updates] on social media, and usually it’s not immediate, it’s well after something has happened,” Whitehead says. “We get calls from people in the community being, like, ‘What the hell is going on down the block from me?’ Then we have to call [the responsible agency], and then they tweet out to everyone — without calling us back — all the information.”

Assignment editors set up Tweet Deck channels, or Social News Desk dashboards, where they follow various government agencies, other news sources like the Associated Press and additional relevant accounts where prospective stories may pop up. Dataminr alerts help inform assignment editors, too; neighborhood-focused Reddit forums and community-based apps like Nextdoor can sometimes supply story ideas as well.

Then, there are community-related Facebook groups, which one assignment editor says she joins using a public profile associated with their news team position. Another longtime story assigner says she taps younger newsroom colleagues to examine Instagram, Snapchat and other social media platforms they might be more comfortable navigating through.

Scrutiny’s Imperative

Like in the past with press releases — though assignment editors still lift stories from those on occasion — they can’t take what’s written online at face value. The same can be said for what citizen tipsters tell the assignment editor over the phone or in emails, as well as what public information officers say.

“People ask me what the hell I do, and I always tell them, ‘Well, the assignment desk is usually ‘first response,’” Whitehead says. “You gotta sift through the bullshit.”

While they may have always prioritized backing up facts, with sources, data and other means, assignment editors in 2022 say there is an added emphasis on getting story facts unquestionably correct.

Jamila Elder

“There are some stations that report solely off of what they hear on the scanners. We are not that station,” says Jamila Elder, assignment editor at WRAL, Capitol Broadcasting’s NBC affiliate in Raleigh, N.C. “You dig deep, you reach out to your contacts and you wait until you get [your information] confirmed, even though your competition station may be reporting it. As an assignment editor that’s very frustrating because we’re very competitive; you want to get the information and you want to get it first, [but] we would rather wait and get it right, than to report it first and get it wrong.”

Experience Matters

In many cases, as one assignment editor puts it, newsies “fall into” their positions at the assignment desk. The experience they bring with them, often as a reporter or anchor, serves them well in the role.

WXIN-WTTV Indianapolis assignment desk personnel (l-r): Adam Bartels, Ruthanne Gordon, Tim O’Brien and Sabrina Adams. (Greg Wilkerson photo)

Prior to Ruthanne Gordon becoming senior planning manager for Nexstar’s WXIN (Fox)-WTTV (CBS) Indianapolis, she was an assignment editor for 33 years. Before that, she was a reporter and anchor for more than five years, bringing with her to the assignment desk an assortment of connections from her front-of-the-camera days that she continues to call upon. Her phone book has only ballooned bigger throughout her 45 years in news.

“I have quite a Rolodex,” Gordon says, “I think that’s what they wanted when I came to this position as senior planning manager.” Cops she first met doing stand-ups, she says, “are now the commanders here in town, so I’ve kept those cell numbers, and that’s where I have an advantage.”

Working as a journalist before manning the assignment desk also helps cultivate that vital instinct of what makes for a compelling newscast. However, the assignment desk is also a prime location for industry newbies to break in and learn — a lot — on the fly.

“You gotta pay your dues by working the weekends,” Elder says. “That was where I learned the most because you don’t have a lot of managers, so you have to make those on-the-spot decisions. So, I was able to make those mistakes on that weekend shift, but I was also able to learn from those mistakes and learn how to make good news decisions.”

“This is a great way of starting and learning,” Gordon says of the assignment desk gig. Calling it a way to “fast-track” those new to the industry, she adds: “You can jump off of this and go produce a show [or] jump in a truck and go do an interview.”

Kendra Gilbert, senior assignment editor at KING, had no experience in a TV newsroom before hopping into the assignment desk chair at a station in her home market of Fresno, Calif. Fresh out of college, she struggled to find work in print journalism, her focus of study in school. But that degree still meant she could sniff out a good story and, combining that sense with strong organizational and communication skills, she was confident she could fill the seat just fine.

Kendra Gilbert

She’s held an assignment editor position at one West Coast station or another for nine years running. She says to excel in the role one has to be comfortable working in “a fast-paced environment,” and have the ability to “turn on a dime” and “focus on one thing and switch to another.”

Collaboration Grows

Elder statesman Gordon says of the assignment editor job demands: “It keeps me young.” Both she and the more youthful Gilbert say the position has also become more collaborative in recent years.

“We do sort of have that gatekeeper role,” Gilbert says. Still, she continues, “there’s always this two-way exchange of information between the desk and the reporters.”

Assignment editors consider reporter strengths, areas of interest and experience when deciding in whose hands a story will be entrusted. But they also field pitches from reporters and engage in broad conversations about the day’s items of interest with various members of the team.

“Nobody runs on their own in here; we have a tight-knit group [and] we back each other up,” Gordon says of the group at her Nexstar stations. “If we have spot news … we all jump in, and that’s the key to a really good assignment desk. You give and take, and you have that flexibility that at the end of the day, we’ve covered it, we’ve got it, we’ve got angles that nobody else has thought of.”

Not only does the team effort behind story assignment potentially add layers and depth to an eventual package, but it reinforces the integrity of the news it delivers across an entire broadcast, day in, day out.

In the constant struggle to identify mis- and disinformation, while also presenting stories in appropriate context, “that is where a collective, collaborative culture of a newsroom saves you,” KING’s Wolfe says. “If you are, as a team, having editorial checks, conversations, diverse viewpoints, bringing different people in, then you can catch those things and catch yourself and find the right story.

“That’s why I think having a diverse newsroom is so key, because different people are going to see different things and think about different questions and weigh that story against their own experience …. Whether it’s a big newsroom or a small newsroom, getting people together to talk about stories is just really, really important.” she says.

Decentralized Approach

One would be hard-pressed to find a more profound example of the increasingly collaborative nature the assignment editor’s job has assumed over the past handful of years than the organizational structure at Lee’s Southern California Spectrum News channel.

In an effort to cover the market’s five counties, across a sprawling megalopolis, her channel employs an assignment editor manager and four individual assignment editors, each of whom are primarily stationed in different parts of the region: north, south, east and west. They report to the station’s office in El Segundo once per week on a rotating basis, but otherwise they’re out in the field, working closely with reporters as they scour for stories and continually develop relationships with sources.

Lee says the more decentralized arrangement allows for her newsroom to be less “reactive” — as others have been historically — and more “proactive,” engaging in “enterprise storytelling.”

“Of course, we still react, because there’s breaking news,” Lee says, “but when there is real enterprise storytelling, you’re working in advance, working your sources and your community and really becoming experts on the ground, and it’s been an amazing collaboration.

“That’s what has gotten lost, is the idea that, really, journalists should have their ears on the ground, they should be developing beats and sources, and they should be working with assignment editors — story planners — to figure out the best way to tell those stories together,” she says. “It’s been a really exciting team approach to newsgathering.”

Seeking Deeper Impact

Whether they’ve been part of an experiment in cutting-edge structural invention or traditionally clock into the newsroom and sit at a stationary desk throughout their shift, assignment editors bear the brunt of the responsibility to shuttle broadcasts away from coverage of police blotter-discovered stories, such as shootings, robberies, and fires. Today’s consumers are craving more from their TV news, and stories with farther-reaching impact have to be sought out by those tasked with assigning them to reporters.

“We definitely are trying to be mindful of stories that are affecting more people in our community,” says WRAL’s Elder. “Gone are the days of ‘If it bleeds, it leads.’ That was old school.”

Still, it’s not entirely true that crime and property destruction should completely be dismissed. “When it comes to your family’s safety, the safety of your business, being able to walk down the sidewalk in your city, that is super-relevant to our viewers,” Wolfe says. “The idea that crime is not relevant is the wrong approach. The right approach is: How do we add information and context? How do we stand for truth and hold people accountable? What does the data tell us about that crime? That’s where the impactful stories are.”

Weighing all these factors in choosing stories, maintaining a constantly updated contact database with identifying tags, ensuring that reports are factually concrete and so many other responsibilities, the assignment editor job is certainly not for everybody. But those who do it well can honorably take tremendous pride in their work, which, if nothing else, is undeniably relentless.

“You should never be bored on the assignment desk,” KING’s Gilbert says. “It’s not a place where you can complete one task and then kick back and say, ‘I’ve done it for the day.’ You should always be busy.”

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Corrie Harding says:

March 8, 2022 at 9:11 am

Great write up. I would add one piece of perspective on the ‘parts of the body’ metaphor. In my experience, the Assignment Desk can be the hands reaching out in the dark, or the ears listening for the important ‘sounds’ or the ‘eyes’ looking toward the horizon. All in addition to being part of ‘the brain.’ Ruthanne nailed it. The key is that a video based, broadcast/digital newsroom must have a desk, producers, reporters, and managers that act in a symbiotic relationship. Each must be able to quickly shift based on the news department’s overall vision, and always support each other.

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An assignment editor works at the assignment desk, which is the nerve center of any newsroom. This is where newsroom staff members monitor multiple sources for breaking news, including police and fire scanners. When possible news arises, the assignment editor works with reporters, photographers, producers, and other staff members to assign and develop story ideas.

Small companies sometimes have one assignment editor who is responsible for organizing the assignment desk to operate around the clock. In larger newsrooms, there may be a team of assignment editors that take turns staffing the desk.

Assignment Editor Duties & Responsibilities

The job generally requires the ability to perform the following duties:

• Monitor multiple sources for possible news stories
• Develop and propose a daily news coverage plan
• Lead newsroom staff meetings to review possible stories and assignments
• Help choose which journalists, photographers, and other staff members are assigned to cover stories
• Stay on top of all stories to ensure they're developing as planned and determine which ones are not coming together
• Be the main point of communication between reporters, production teams, and executive staff on developing stories

It's up to the assignment editor to assign people to investigate and report on news stories. The assignment editor's day is sometimes spent shifting people and equipment around so that as many stories get covered as possible, with an eye out on how to handle breaking news coverage at any moment.

When working in television, an assignment editor may also work with the tv producer to decide which crews will take live trucks or a helicopter to broadcast live during a newscast. Also, a TV news anchor who is reviewing scripts just before airtime will often turn to the assignment editor to confirm facts.

An assignment editor's salary can vary depending on location, experience, and employer. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics offers salary data for the broader editor category, but it doesn't offer separate data on the assignment editor subcategory:

• Median Annual Salary: $59,480 
• Top 10% Annual Salary: $114,460 
• Bottom 10% Annual Salary: $30,830  

Education, Training, & Certification

Most assignment editors have the same types of degrees as other editors and journalists in a newsroom.

• Education: Most employers prefer candidates that have at least a bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, or English. 
• Experience: This is often key to getting this type of job, because experience is key to building a list of contacts and learning how to operate smoothly. Employers usually prefer candidates with a background in the type of media in which they specialize, whether it's television, digital, or print news.
• Training: Most training happens on the job. Aspiring assignment editors may want to find an internship position at a newsroom assignment desk.

Assignment Editor Skills & Competencies

To be successful in this role, you’ll generally need the following skills and qualities: 

• Editorial judgment: Assignment editors need to be able to quickly decide whether a story is newsworthy. And although they aren't usually writing the stories themselves, they need to know all of the components of a good news story to guide reporters on coverage.
• Interpersonal skills: Successful assignment editors form relationships with many contacts that can help bring a story together. For example, someone in this role at a local TV news station may have all the county sheriffs' home telephone numbers on speed-dial and be on a first-name basis with the current and previous mayors.
• Organizational skills: An assignment editor must be able to organize the logistics and track the details of several stories at a time and keep everything on schedule.
• Communication skills: An assignment editor must skillfully communicate with all of the staff involved in making news stories come together, including reporters, photographers, production teams, and executive staff.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment in this field will grow 6 percent through 2026, which is slightly slower than the overall employment growth of 7 percent for all occupations in the country. The BLS it doesn't offer separate data on the assignment editor subcategory.

Most of this job is done in an office working under several tight deadlines at once. Those who thrive on pressure and get an adrenaline rush when something unexpected happens may be best suited for this occupation.

An assignment editor usually arrives in the newsroom earlier than the other managers to get a handle on what's happening that day to brief the newsroom. Most assignment editors work full time, and many work long hours, which include evenings and weekends.

People who are interested in becoming assignment editors may also consider other careers with these median salaries: 

• Writers and authors: $61,820
• Reporters, correspondents, and broadcast news analysts: $40,910
• Desktop publishers: $42,350

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This individual is a critical member of our newsroom and will be responsible for coordinating assignments for news coverage and identifying high-impact stories as well as contribute story ideas and content for digital, streaming, and broadcast. The candidate must be a strong communicator, function well under pressure, and have strong multi-platform and multi-tasking skills. This position requires working closely with managers as well as digital and linear producers and is responsible for effectively communicating to and coordinating reporters and photographers in the field. This candidate should have a working knowledge of news gathering including how to navigate court documents, gather information quickly and file public information requests.

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What does an assignment editor do? A longtime assignment manager for NBC4 Washington shares how his team covers breaking news.

At the heart of every newsroom is an assignment desk, where assignment editors figure out what news stories to cover around the clock. They make constant phone calls, listen to police radios and sift through emails to get news tips and background information from officials and the public. They contribute to editorial meetings with reporters, editors and producers. But breaking news can rewrite coverage plans at any point of the day.  

Charlie Bragale, an assignment manager who has worked at WRC-TV in Washington since 1988, has seen many changes in technology , but his assignment desk has always been crucial to newsgathering. He calls his assignment editors “off-air reporters,” talking to sources and conveying updates to news crews and production staff.  

“I compare the assignment editor to a flight controller. I’m trying to land five 747s, a couple of A380s and a couple 737s in a blinding rainstorm,” Bragale said. “100% of my day is talking on the phone, networking with people, trying to get people to talk to me and check in.” 

Bragale talks about the work of an assignment editor in the video above and shares more remarks below.  

What are some tips to being a good assignment editor?

Be curious, be a risk taker and instinctively know what you’re doing right. You see something, go chase after it. We don’t run away from bad news or good news — we run towards everything. 

Success is collaborating with everybody.  We’re just a cog in the wheels of what we do every day. Collaboration is key.  

Your workspace is surrounded by walkie-talkies tuned in to a bunch of police and emergency medical scanners. Isn’t it confusing to listen to all that at once?

Don’t be intimidated by this. This is just white noise. Just listen for keywords, the intensity in the voice, the impact of the event. 

What are some memorable stories you worked on?

I covered a guy who pulled out an AR-15 and shot up the front of the White House [in October 1994] — that was a [Saturday] afternoon, we were running AFC football.  

The phone rings, a guy with a heavy accent says, “Do you speak Portuguese?” And I was like, “Yes, I’m from Brazil.” A Brazilian tourist, videotaping the White House with his family, captured the moment that guy shot at the White House. Back then, we had no cellphones, so I sent a courier to pick him up and look at the video. One of my colleagues ran over, grabbed the video and took it downstairs. They broke into AFC football to show the guy shooting the White House — that’s how important it was.  

[On 9/11,] we knew about the planes that struck the World Trade Center. But then I heard a plane hit the Pentagon. I heard that officer, the chill in his voice — we knew it was [a related attack]. We were ready, directing people everywhere, because we knew Washington.

You’ve worked at the same assignment desk for 36 years. What keeps you going?

This is gonna sound mushy, but I grew up here in Washington, two blocks from the TV station. As a child riding my bike through this park, past Channel 4 to the Catholic school on Massachusetts Avenue, I would always tell my brothers, “One day, I’m going to work at that place.” To represent the community and work at this incredible organization, in my job which I love, is an honor. 

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Unlocking Success: A Guide to the Assignment Editor Career Path

• Published: November 17, 2023
• By: Yellowbrick

Understanding the Role of an Assignment Editor

An assignment editor plays a crucial role in the newsroom. They are responsible for coordinating and assigning news stories to reporters, photographers, and other members of the news team. They work closely with journalists to determine which stories are newsworthy and need to be covered. Additionally, assignment editors often monitor news sources, such as wire services, social media, and press releases, to stay updated on the latest developments and breaking news.

Skills Required for Success

To excel as an assignment editor, certain skills are essential. First and foremost, you need to have a strong news sense and the ability to identify stories with potential impact. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are also vital as you will be working closely with reporters, photographers, and other newsroom staff.

Additionally, organizational skills are crucial to effectively manage multiple assignments and meet tight deadlines. Being adaptable and able to work well under pressure is another key attribute of a successful assignment editor.

Gaining Relevant Education and Experience

While a specific degree is not always required to become an assignment editor, a background in journalism or a related field can be advantageous. Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, or a similar discipline can provide you with a solid foundation of knowledge and skills.

Several universities and colleges offer journalism programs, including New York University (NYU), NYU Tisch, Parsons School of Design, Parsons, The New School, FIT, Fashion Institute of Technology, FIDM, and Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.

Alongside formal education, gaining practical experience through internships or entry-level positions in news organizations is highly beneficial. These opportunities allow you to develop hands-on skills, network with industry professionals, and gain a deeper understanding of the newsroom environment. Yellowbrick offers online courses specifically designed for aspiring journalists, providing valuable insights and practical knowledge to kickstart your career.

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Ishika Gupta didn’t know anyone when she arrived at Duke as a first-year student. So, when she learned that the university had a mandatory random roommate policy for incoming first-year students, she saw it as an opportunity to meet new people from different backgrounds.

“One of the reasons why I loved it is that my roommate was an engineering student, so there was no reason for us to ever meet at Duke except because of the random policy. I feel that because of it I got to meet her,” said Gupta, who at the time was a pre-med student. Today, she is a research tech in the White-McGarrah Lab in Duke’s Molecular Physiology Institute.

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When Duke’s random roommate policy was instituted, not everyone was sold on the idea. Some students pushed back. That prompted Duke to reach out to Gaither.

“Since they knew I had done that work as a grad student, as they were deciding on the policy change, they reached out to me to ask if I would like to work with Duke and try to assess data points behind the policy change,” Gaither said.

As a postdoctoral researcher in Gaither’s lab, Analia Albuja, Ph.D., now an assistant professor of psychology at Northeastern University, broke the analysis into three parts: The first part used university survey data from students before the random roommate policy took effect. At that time, about 50 percent of students chose to be randomly assigned. The second group of students was surveyed after the policy was put into place. That resulted in a significant increase in the likelihood of students being assigned to someone from another racial group.

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The recently published study echoes the results of her earlier research: “Randomized roommate assignment is a promising avenue for universities to promote cross-race contact amidst persistent racial segregation on college campuses, with limited negative consequences for relationship quality,” the paper states.

Mary Pat McMahon, Duke’s vice provost and vice president of student affairs, knew Gaither from Tufts, where she served as dean of student affairs at its Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering, and was familiar with her research.

McMahon said even though roommates are randomly assigned for incoming first-year Duke students, common interests and personal preferences are taken into consideration, but not racial diversity.

“In our residential community at Duke, students engage with this much more diverse – by all definitions – a community of people – one that’s much more diverse than the community where most students grew up. The chance to learn and grow together as a community is part of the tremendous value of this education,” McMahon said.

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“What we're trying to do with experiential orientation, as with assigning roommates and creating communities in the residence halls, sets up the conditions for a much broader exploratory, insightful path of discovery,” said McMahon.

In 2019, Gaither discussed the benefits of the randomized roommate policy in a video produced as part of a series in which Duke faculty answer questions about life's curiosities.

In it, Gaither says that her work has shown that “living with another race group can have positive benefits, such as increasing a student’s positive sense of self, and at the end of their first year of college we show that experience caused that student to better navigate a future diverse setting.”

Several other universities, including Johns Hopkins, Tufts, New York University and Colgate University, have mandatory random roommate policies for incoming first-year students. Each has acknowledged that students will gravitate toward people with similar cultural or regional backgrounds or those with common interests. Introducing them to other students from different nationalities, ethnicities, religions and languages better prepares them for life outside the classroom.

“Our main positive finding is that regardless of your racial or ethnic background, all of our students are showing a significant boost in the diversity of their friend network on campus, and we know that for your sense of belonging, it makes for better educational outcomes for students,” Gaither said.

For former students such as Gupta, who came to Duke from North Dakota, having a roommate from Pennsylvania and getting to know other students was a positive experience.

“You can learn from your roommate and see what their interests are and maybe you'll learn something about yourself,” she said.

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Cooking performance

How we tested, the bottom line: should you buy a breville smart oven air fryer pro, why trust good housekeeping.

Countertop real estate is a hot commodity in most kitchens, so whenever an appliance claims it can do double duty, it has my attention, especially as a New Yorker and food editor who works with a lot of appliances.

Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro

I work in the Test Kitchen at Good Housekeeping, and I have been using the Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro at home for more than three years after receiving it as a gift from my wedding registry . I find myself using this appliance five times a week at least . I even moved my microwave to the basement because I basically stopped using it altogether (reheated leftovers taste way better when warmed in a toaster oven vs. nuked, in my opinion).

Suffice to say that the Breville air fryer toaster oven has earned its place in my kitchen, so I had to check in with Nicole Papantoniou , director of the Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen Appliances and Innovation Lab, and her team to hear their thoughts, which are backed by thorough testing. Good news: They recommend it too!

In the Lab, Nicole and her team of analysts and product experts evaluate all types of kitchen appliances to find the best: air fryers , toaster ovens , air fryer toaster ovens , you name it. Over the past few years, these experts have put over 40 air fryers, 40 toaster ovens and 20 air fryer toaster ovens to the test — including the Breville Smart Oven Pro , the Breville Joule Oven Air Fryer Pro and the Breville Compact Smart Oven .

Over the years, our Good Housekeeping Kitchen Appliances Lab evaluated a few different kitchen appliances from Breville — including Breville espresso machines — and the brand has earned top spots in our roundups of the best toaster ovens , best air fryer toaster ovens , best indoor pizza ovens and best food processors .

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In our Lab and consumer tests, we evaluate overall performance and ease of use. We review user manuals and instruction guides and rank how intuitive the appliance is. Breville had high scores across the board, and consumers agreed it worked as it claimed it would. It was easy to set up and included easy-to-read instructions.

For anyone who skips reading instruction manuals (oh, hi!), you're in luck. The interface is super straightforward, and I found the oven easy to operate without any directions. You turn a knob to toggle between cooking functions, which are clearly displayed on a digital screen. Another knob allows you to control how many slices of toast you have, select the temperature setting or set your timer.

There's even a button you can press if you're starting with something frozen (i.e. frozen waffles). One Lab expert commented that the menus were simple to follow and ideal for people who appreciate having a little more assistance when cooking.

The oven door has markings to show you the ideal rack height for the different cooking methods, so there's no guessing where to place the air fryer basket vs. the oven rack for an optimal cooking experience.

The Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro offers more than a dozen cooking functions, which is great for anyone who wants the flexibility of using the same appliance to roast a chicken, toast bread and bake a batch of cookies (plus so much more). The Lab experts commented on its versatility, especially in comparison to other brands and models.

To test how evenly toaster ovens heat, the experts in the Kitchen Appliances Lab place slices of white bread side-by-side on one of the racks and measure how quickly and evenly they toast at various settings. Breville products received lower scores for toasting than some other toaster ovens. Toasting took about a minute longer, and the slices of bread weren't the most evenly browned. In my personal testing (read: toasting up a bagel or slice of bread for breakfast), I noticed the variations in darkness, but it hasn't been much of an issue.

Roasting and baking

The roasting and baking functions, however, earned high scores in our Lab testing . We roasted a 4-pound chicken and were pleased with the results: juicy, with crispy skin.

We used the included pizza pan and pizza function to cook a frozen pizza and were impressed with the golden crust and evenly browned cheese. Our cake-baking test produced pleasant results, as well.

At home, I often use this appliance instead of my oven. I'm usually cooking for two , and this countertop oven heats up more quickly than my full-size oven and doesn't make my whole kitchen hot. (Win-win) I love throwing one or two cookies in and using the bake function for a sweet post-dinner treat.

When compared with other air fryer models, including air fryer toaster ovens and especially basket-style air fryers , we found that others scored higher during Lab testing. The Breville air fryer toaster ovens didn't make wings and frozen fries as crispy as others. I find that the appliance gets smoky if I air-fry anything oily or greasy — like marinated foods or chicken wings.

Smoking and steam were also flagged by our Lab and our consumer testers . Nicole points out that this air fryer toaster oven doesn't have a tray under the air fryer basket, so oil and fat drip onto the exposed heat source on the bottom. I air-fried bacon once and immediately regretted it.

While I love using the Breville air fryer function to make crispy air fryer tofu and have found success with recipes that call for air-frying something in a ramekin, like peanut butter molten chocolate cakes , I still lean on my basket-style air fryer more often for air frying. I find it more convenient since I don't need to find a potholder to shake the food halfway through and can easily pop the basket into the dishwasher afterward.

Measuring 17.5 inches x 21.5 inches x 12.7 inches, the Breville Smart Oven Pro is definitely larger than other air fryer toaster ovens out there. This introduces its own sets of pros and cons. If you don't have a ton of space, the size may very well be a deal breaker.

If you do have the space, though, this size offers a few benefits:

• Its large capacity means that you can cook a decent amount of food at once — our Lab experts were able to fit up to nine slices of toast! This provides a good option for larger families or someone who likes batch cooking.
• I found that the larger size makes this appliance an even better alternative to a conventional oven. Most quarter sheet pans will fit, as well as many cake pans and square baking pans , so you don't have to buy anything special (a huge perk, in my opinion!).

In our Lab tests, we found that cleaning the included air fryer basket was a bit tricky, but many of the included trays cleaned easily. I, personally, found that when anything drips onto the heating elements (especially during air-frying), it is pretty hard to clean. Otherwise, the crumb tray is easy to remove, scrub in the sink and replace. And wiping the appliance with a wet cloth was simple.

In the Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen Appliances and Innovation Lab, the experts perform tests to evaluate how well an air-fry toaster oven can air-fry, bake, broil and toast.

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• cook chicken wings to see how quickly and evenly they crisp up
• toast dozens of slices of bread at different settings to evaluate evenness of browning and timing
• air-fry frozen French fries to assess goldenness, crispness and moistness
• make frozen pizza to see how evenly the cheese melts and whether the crust is done
• bake a cake to see how evenly it cooks
• broil steak to gauge the strength and efficacy of the broiling function

Over the past few years, I have used the Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro in my home kitchen an estimated five times per week. I have toasted hundreds of slices of bread, as well as dozens of bagels and frozen waffles. I experimented with a variety of air fryer recipes ranging from meatloaf, fish and tofu to air-fryer eggplant Parmesan, crispy chickpeas and fajitas.

I have also broiled pizza bagels and open-faced cheese sandwiches, baked chocolate chip cookies, dehydrated apple slices and reheated countless leftovers (sesame chicken, grain bowls, slices of pizza, you name it).

If you have the counter space and want a multitasking toaster oven that can handle a variety of culinary tasks, we say yes. One consumer tester said, "I would buy this all day long!"If you don't have a ton of room, we recommend opting for a smaller model, like the Breville Compact Smart Oven .

Looking for something more high-tech? The Breville Joule Oven Air Fryer Pro offers a more connected experience, allowing you to sync the appliance with an app, and it performed well in our Lab tests.

For anyone who prioritizes air-frying and doesn't toast, bake or roast often, we suggest opting for a basket-style air fryer, like the Ninja Air Fryer Max XL , which produced crispy and evenly cooked chicken wings in our Lab tests and proved easy to clean.

Trish Clasen Marsanico is the deputy food editor at Good Housekeeping. She works closely with the recipe developers and testers in the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen. She has over a decade of experience producing food content for magazines, websites, cooking apps and cookbooks — including Good Housekeeping's Air Fryer Magic cookbook .

Nicole Papantoniou is the director of the Kitchen Appliances Lab, where she has overseen all testing and content related to cooking products, including toaster ovens and air fryers, for more than five years. She has worked in test kitchens for small kitchen appliance brands and has answered many GH readers' questions about air frying over the years (e.g. how does an air fryer actually work? ).

Trish (she/her) is the deputy food editor at Good Housekeeping , where she covers all things food, from cooking trends and delicious recipes to top-tested kitchen products and grocery finds. She has more than a decade of experience writing about food for GH, Women’s Health , Prevention , Redbook , Woman’s Day , The Daily Meal and Food Network. When she’s not at the supermarket or trying out a new recipe, you can find her at the beach, in her backyard or on the couch — typically with a glass of wine in hand.

Nicole (she/her) is the director of the Good Housekeeping Institute 's Kitchen Appliances and Innovation Lab, where she has overseen content and testing related to kitchen and cooking appliances, tools and gear since 2019. She’s an experienced product tester and recipe creator, trained in classic culinary arts and culinary nutrition. She has worked in test kitchens for small kitchen appliance brands and national magazines, including Family Circle and Ladies’ Home Journal .

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o Integrate user generated content as part of “crowd sourcing” to complement our professional content.

Vacancy Type: Full Time Date Posted: 9/4/2012 Closing Date: 10/4/2012 City: Omaha - 68131 State: Nebraska URL: http://www.ketv.com/index.html Experience: Experience Requirements:

o Demonstrated journalism background; strong news judgment; knowledge of legal and ethical issues in the digital media. o Demonstrated social media background; knowledge of legal and ethical issues surrounding social media o Highly developed digital skill set with experience in content management systems, HTML, and knowledge of coding for the web. o Preferably Bachelors in Journalism or related field. o Preferably 1 -3 years prior experience working for a television news station, daily newspaper or in a digital environment. o Ability to work collaboratively with digital and broadcast journalists. o Knowledge of editing and AP Stylebook standards. o Ability to pass writing and editing test. o Ability to convey complex subject matter clearly and engagingly. o Ability to catch spelling errors without electronic assistance. o Ability to manage time and meet multiple daily deadlines for various projects. o Ability to be flexible in schedule to cover major and/or breaking news events. o Ability to work with a positive attitude. o Ability to work well in a multitasking environment with frequent interruptions, paying close attention to details.

Requirements: Education:

• Bachelor or Associate Degree in multi media journalism, journalism, broadcast journalism or a related field. Experience will be considered in lieu of education.

Additional Information: EOE M/F/D/V Contact: To Apply: Send resume and sample of work to: Rose Ann Shannon KETV News Director 2665 Douglas Street Omaha, NE 68131

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