The phrase "assignment to cover the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a task or project that is intended to address or include specific content or topics.
Example: "The assignment to cover the recent developments in technology will be due next week."
Alternatives: "task to address the" or "project to include the".
The assignment to cover the invasion had surprised me.
I'm trying to get an assignment to cover the historic Democratic convention.
During a session with my therapist, I mention that I am considering an assignment to cover the corpse flower.
In the summer of 1960, Norman Mailer took an assignment to cover the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles.
By David Remnick In the summer of 1960, Norman Mailer took an assignment to cover the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles.
Jerry Higgins Gilbert Martinn), for instance, is a BBC television reporter with a troubled marriage who is about to leave on assignment to cover the war.
Following the war, the two collaborated again on The Story of the Stars and Stripes (1946) and Conquerors' Peace: A Report to the American Stockholders (1947), the latter of which evolved from a magazine assignment to cover Europe in the wake of the war.
After being given a Hollywood boost by Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (which was partly inspired by Crowe's Rolling Stone writing assignment to cover an Allman Brothers tour in the early 70s), Allman himself got a film off the ground based on his memoir, My Cross to Bear.
It took him a decade to finish his second novel, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), and a year later he took on the New Yorker assignment to cover a quadruple homicide in Kansas that became In Cold Blood.
I sympathise with Abdallah's impatience, even though, as a journalist on assignment to cover their lightning stay in New York, I'm part of the problem.
That year, the older sister of a friend of mine, a party reporter for People magazine, had scored an assignment to cover supermodel Heidi Klum's Halloween party at some hot club in the basement of the Radisson Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
