Pros
-One-man-band work style allows you to develop camera, lighting, interview, MOS, and broll shooting skills
Kontras
-You'll be sent alone to remote locations -Often in very bad areas (high crime rates), with very expensive equipment that makes you a target -Assignment Desk will ask you last minute to go to an event which you'll then be late for and have to be the last journo to setup their cam and disrupt everyone -You won't be put with a reporter and a news truck unless one of the veteran News Assistants is out sick -Staff is not friendly -Assignment Desk crew are all rude/cold/don't care about you or what you want to do -No breaks so you have to eat in the car while driving to the next assignment, good luck finding a bathroom -The "training" process is terrible, you're assigned another News Assistant to shadow but they don't teach you well then you're expected to know everything -Assignment Desk will tell you take a car out but then other people will complain you took "their car" (when it isn't assigned to them) -When your shift is over they will ALWAYS ask if you can go to one more assignment (which often lasts another 1-3 hours) -The hours are terrible- you're either in before the sun is up or out very late at night -If you quit, management turns extremely rude towards you, don't expect a goodbye on your last day