Authenticity shines through Liu and Rogers don’t dress like anchors, nor were they trained in news delivery - which was precisely the point. More crucially, in this period of consumer distrust in news organizations, Dello Stritto says The Desk is an opportunity to provide viewers with critical transparency. Assignment editors were already doing this job now they’re just doing it on camera. “In our world, we’re telling the viewer right away instead of telling the reporter.”Īt the very least, The Desk is a low-tech means of producing new content with a virtual net-zero impact on workflow.
“In other worlds, the assignment editor would be telling the reporter what they’ve learned,” Dello Stritto says. (In the old digs, several cameras were placed around the assignment desk for varying shot selections.) Once on the air, the assignment editors simply discuss what they know about a new story, while reporters travel to a scene and prepare their packages. Anchors throw to Liu or Rogers at the assignment desk, which was built into the station’s new studio, launched Jan. With The Desk, any middlemen have been cut out of news delivery. “Did it make things faster? Probably a few things, but really some of it was just playing a little television smoke-and-mirrors.” “Still, it was filtered had to go through a middle manager, through a process,” Dello Stritto says about the old breaking news desk feature.
He says The Desk is the “next generation” of the breaking news desk, which he recalls became in vogue about a decade ago, likely after some news consultants told stations it would add immediacy to their broadcasts. After taking his current position in February 2022, Dello Stritto committed himself to finding a way to further leverage what he believes is the finest assignment desk in America. Like so many others in the industry, Dello Stritto has bounced around the country during his career, working in newsrooms in Florida, Tennessee, Nevada and elsewhere. The Desk is the brainchild of Mike Dello Stritto, VP and news director at KCBS and KCAL. When producers choose not to interrupt the broadcast, one of the assignment editors may deliver breaking stories on the KCBS website streaming channel. During morning and evening news shows on KCBS and its sister station KCAL, both of which are CBS-owned, assignment desk editors Liu and Mike Rogers discuss the stories members of the newsroom are working on - breaking news and, sometimes, enterprise stories as well. The segment was one example of a new KCBS broadcast initiative, The Desk. For around 10 total minutes Liu shared the rest of the information he had about the incident with KCBS News morning anchors before they interviewed a retired member of the fire department, who provided insight into what the scene’s first responders appeared to be doing.
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