Pro practiceAssignment Editor (Newsroom) practice interview
Running a daily assignment desk, deploying reporters, safeguarding accuracy and coordinating strong coverage as priorities change. Practise the 6 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Lead
- 20 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
An assignment editor decides what the newsroom pursues, deploys reporting teams and keeps coverage accurate as events move. The panel is assessing your news judgement, command of editorial standards, ability to lead reporters and control a busy multi-platform desk.
How to prepare
- Review recent news cycles and practise explaining which stories you would lead with and why.
- Prepare examples of strengthening a weak story, stopping publication and correcting an error.
- Think through how you allocate reporters when several important stories break together.
- Prepare a coaching example that shows how a reporter improved under your guidance.
- Revise your approach to anonymous sources, right of reply, headlines and live corrections.
Common mistakes
- Choosing stories only by expected traffic without discussing public value.
- Treating copy editing as a substitute for checking the reporting.
- Giving vague accounts of team leadership with no difficult decision or result.
- Blaming reporters for errors without explaining the desk controls you own.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
6 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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