12 Newsroom management
RESOURCES
The problem of running any newsroom is that it is expensive. As far as many senior managers in commercial radio are concerned, it is seen as an expensive necessity. They have to balance the need to provide a news service to their listeners (and also that their radio station’s officially agreed format may require it) with the fact that news spends money but rarely brings it in. It is a very labour-intensive department. For the BBC, though, news on local radio is seen as the station’s lifeblood and better resources are provided because the news and speech output is greater than that of commercial radio.
Rotas
In a simple news operation, working rotas are easy to put together. The bigger the news operation, the harder ...
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