Aduty editor (also known aseditor of the day) innews media, such asradio andtelevision, is a seniorjournalist with editorial and managerial duties. A duty editor acts as an editor in the absence of the news editor (compare:duty officer). In many cases, it is the duty editor who takes most day-to-day decisions. The duty editor is responsible for planning and running scheduled and breaking news broadcasts, gives assignments to reporters and acts as their supervisor, and decides which content that shall be broadcast, how it shall be presented and in what order.[1]
In large media organizations such as theBBC or other public broadcasters, the actual editor or news editor is often a senior manager who is seldom directly involved in day-to-day decisions, having delegated editorial duties to a senior journalist. The duty editor is usually the most senior journalist who is present at anews desk. There may be several duty editors on duty with different areas of responsibility; in theBBC, there is always a "home duty editor" and a "foreign duty editor" on duty, responsible for domestic and foreign news, respectively.
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