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

In-House Reporting Resources...
Reporters:	1 writer/anchor Staff announcers
Specific beats:	n/a
Telephone interviews:	Almost no tape
Do you duplicate coverage of the wires?	n/a
Police info:	Wire
Bureaus:	No
Stringers, freelancers?	No
Versions of voicers:	n/a
Tape library:	n/a
Long distance budget:	n/a
Influenced by competitors?	“No”
Outside Sources...
Subscription services:	AP: Natl Br, Metro Br Weather New York Times wire
Alternatives:	None
Audio services:	No
PR, politicians:	No
Daybooks:	Yes
Will you lift stories from newspapers?	Yes
Traffic/transit:	Sometimes the wire and “secret sources”
Facilities...
Open reels:	n/a
Cart machines:	n/a
Timers:	Circular clock
Phone:	Studio
Cassette portables:	n/a
Cassette decks:	n/a
On-street mikes:	n/a
Equalizers:	n/a
Broadcast lines to bureaus:	n/a
Cart machines at each desk?	n/a
Separate news studio?	Yes
Writing Style...
Stylebook?	No
Sound bite limits:	Don't use, but a wire story would be limited to 1:15 – 1:30
Story line limits:	Wire
Grammar:	Formal. “We don't let the bars down”
Use of 'straight wire copy':	A lot

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