Radio Stations

Let’s think of a large national radio station. At the head of a radio station’s staffing structure is the radio’s manager. Then you get different departments, including departments like news, sport, music and marketing. It is the news department that is most likely to contact you, whether for hard or soft news, so we will look at the structure for the editorial staff of that department.

You get the executive producer who has overall responsibility for news broadcasts and stories that need to be followed up. Editors are responsible for particular programs, like a morning news program. The editor decides what will be broadcast. It is his or her task to make sure that the programs are of a good quality. Then you get the different journalists who bring in the stories, having gone out with their notebooks and tape recorders. Back at the radio station you have the technical staff who check that things like sound are of a good quality.