Excerpted from a radio news documentary by Martin Hardee, Fall, 1978.  

In-House Reporting Resources...
Reporters:	3 full-time reporters, 3 reporters/anouncers 6 writers/producers
Specific beats:	All generalists
Telephone interviews:	Yes, “a good deal” Recorded in the studio
Do you duplicate coverage of the wires?	Yes
Police info:	Check police wire, then call
Bureaus:	None local, but use stringers
Stringers, freelancers?	Connecticut, Trenton
Versions of voicers:	3 or 4
Tape library:	Yes, but “not that good”
Long distance budget:	WATS, “win” line
Influenced by competitors?	“No”
Outside Sources...
Subscription services:	2 weather wires Police wire UPI: A, C, Br AP: A, C, Br New Jersey wire Sports
Alternatives:	None
Audio services:	AP Radio Westinghouse Acu-weather Line 1000
PR, politicians:	“No handouts”
Daybooks:	“Very important”
Newspapers:	Yes. “If exclusive, we try to confirm. If we can't confirm then we attribute.
Traffic/transit:	Monitor WCBS & WOR MTA tunnel Transit phone Traffic desk
Facilities...
Open reels:	9 or 10 Different models
Cart machines:	16 Different makes
Timers:	Digital clock
Phone:	Recorded in studio
Cassette portables:	Sony TC-110s
Cassette decks:	Yes
On-street mikes:	EV 635a Others
Equalizers:	Yes
Broadcast lines to bureaus:	No
Cart machines at each desk?	Yes
Separate news studio?	Yes
Writing Style...
Stylebook?	Yes, “but needs revision”
Sound bite limits:	“Short” Usually :25, up to :52 sometimes
Story line limits:	18 lines
Grammar:	“Coloquial”
Use of 'straight wire copy':	“discouraged”

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