What Other Jobs Are Available In A Newsroom Besides Reporter?

Everyone wants the "glamour job," being the reporter with the front-page byline on the hot, breaking-news story. The truth is, a newsroom is a team of individuals backing up the reporter, who is often a newspaper's sole public face.
The hierarchy of a newsroom start with the managing editor, who manages the newsroom staff, answers to the publisher, and balances the budget.
Assignment (or city) editors manage the reporting staff directly, making story assignments and asking the writers what they would like to work on. Each reporter has a "beat," a specific area of concern, such as city government, health, outdoors, education, business, etc.
Features (or lifestyle) editors assigning stories about non-hard-news topics: human-interest, entertainment, society, food, fashion, history, interviews with interesting people.
Editorial (or opinion) page editors write editorials reflecting the management's views on a particular topic. Unless a story is specifically labelled an opinion piece, column, or analysis, journalists cannot express their own views on a topic. Opinion page editors also solicit and edit opinion-pieces from the public and the letters to the editor.
Copy editors take the reporter's story and edit them for accuracy, style and usage, spelling, and consistency. In addition to having a solid command of English and its usage, a good copy editor needs a very broad liberal-arts education in order to catch factual errors. Nowadays, the copy editor is usually the chief proofreader.
Photographers are managed by the city and feature editors. Photographers get assignments based on reporters' proposed stories. He or she must produce images that accurately reflect the stories' content --not always an easy thing to do. Photographers must also produce accurate captions for their images.
Page designers lay out the copy onto an electronic grid, usually using the Quark Express program. Headlines are often written by page designers, and they are responsible for producing visually appealing pages on which stories are given proper prominence.
Editorial assistants type obituary notices, public-service announcements, community briefs, and sometimes stories or opinions submitted by the public.