Assign stories to other reporters or duties to production staff.

“Assign stories to other reporters or duties to production staff.” is a core task performed by News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists. Among the occupation's 30 rated tasks, workers place it 2nd by importance (#29 most important). About 68% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures. in Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Write commentaries, columns, or scripts, using computers. · importance 4.8
• Coordinate and serve as an anchor on news broadcast programs. · importance 4.8
• Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members. · importance 4.7
• Analyze and interpret news and information received from various sources to broadcast the information. · importance 4.7
• Receive assignments or evaluate leads or tips to develop story ideas. · importance 4.7
• Research a story's background information to provide complete and accurate information. · importance 4.6
• Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story. · importance 4.5
• Gather information and develop perspectives about news subjects through research, interviews, observation, and experience. · importance 4.5
• Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats. · importance 4.5
• Present news stories, and introduce in-depth videotaped segments or live transmissions from on-the-scene reporters. · importance 4.4
• Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information. · importance 4.4
• Report news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events. · importance 4.3
• Revise work to meet editorial approval or to fit time or space requirements. · importance 4.3
• Review and evaluate notes taken about news events to isolate pertinent facts and details. · importance 4.3

See all tasks on the News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-22651,
  title  = {Assign stories to other reporters or duties to production staff.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-22651}
}