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CNN Radio Editor (full time)

Req # 90681BR

Duties: A CNN Radio Editor will gather and edit the best sound that will be used in Network Newscasts and distributed to CNN Radio affiliates.

Qualifications: Radio journalism experience, either network, local is preferred, but not mandatory. Digital audio editing and writing for radio news is essential. On-air news experience is a plus.

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CNN Radio Newsource Producer (full time).

Req # 92850BR.

Duties: Story Planning/Assignment, Affiliate Communication, Editing/Production, Administrative.

Qualifications: Three to Five years News/Talk Radio experience, Digital Audio Editing, Radio Producing and Writing experience. College Degree preferred.
 
$12. It's CNN.
 
oaktree said:
$12. It's CNN.
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You are being generous Oak. $12 to start out with at Turner?!

I worked at TNN when it was purchased by Group W and was in the first round of layoffs. Turner had a job for a sat truck operator, but it paid less than what I made down in Albany 5 years earlier and way less than what I was making in Nashville!!
 
$3600 a month ($25 an hour, six hours a day, six days a week) for an editor's job (non-union?) Any of you have this kind of experience? Ain't happenin'. I agree with the sat truck guy. I know field guys who were barely making $30k a year, tops. It's a Cool Edit/Adobe Audition splice and dice job ... not Lou Dobbs' replacement. Not even an air job. Maybe ... $17. Maybe. Bennies? Depending on experience ... I'd be surprised if it's much more than $15, honest. $17 and no bennies.
 
Why are several of you just taking wild guesses here? Why not listen to a few who have some experience. This is non-union radio, people. Market size doesn't count. You're in a room with six other radio editors doing just that ... writing wraps, very short body content and doing actualities. You're not even writing newscasts. Your stuff goes to the senior desk editor. In fact ... there was a day that you only got paid for what made air ... not what you wrote or produced!

Here ... see if this helps. Honest, I was trying to be a little humorous, but actually being realistically honest.

Forget the top part of this ... go to the second part ... you'll see what I'm talking about. Again, thanks to the few that knew that I'm not far off. This ... is CNN. Good luck!

http://www.journalismjobs.com/salaries.cfm
 
Dear Mr. Oaktree,

Try to have a little factual information before spewing. It's obvious you don't know anything about this place firsthand. Having spent more than 20 years at CNN Radio, and still considering a number of people in those positions friends, the $25 an hour with benefits figure is accurate, give or take a few cents for experience.
 
Not when I called today. You better do your homework before you start accusing people of not knowing. I have very good friends in the LA bureau and most people wouldn't tell you their salary in the first place. Those that did back not only me, but the statistics provided.

Spew on, voice of experience. And that's without benefits. Don't start flaming people who you don't know ... you just might be surprised. And that job as a tape editor sure didn't pay $25 a hour 20 years ago. Get a grip and let's see your homework.

CNN Radio, such as it was, was more of a HNN news simulcast before it was distributed by Westwood One.

Doubtful you were a tape editor. There are other editors, you know ...
 
You can pull all the numbers you can out of your backside if you want, but I'm in a position to know exactly how much several of those people are making. These are specific job openings we're talking about here, not just some theoretical crap based on an industry survey or a phone call to someone who might work in Los Angeles. (CNN Radio is headquartered in Atlanta) Why don't you call Jim Roope and ask HIM? Or better yet, ask Tyler. The editor job probably pays less than the Newssource opening since the latter carries adminstrative duties, and there is a salary range for each based on experience and other factors, but the $25 an hour figure is a good benchmark. I'm betting I'm a lot closer to this situation than you are, so prove me wrong.

And when I started at CNN Radio in August 1984, the network had already been in existence for several months, so you already have one big fat misstatement to your credit. Why should we trust anything else you have to say?
 
Good of you to amend your post after the fact, Oaktree. Claiming that CNN Radio isn't even 20 years old simply betrays your ignorance. Bottom line is... your post is typical of the kind of garbage we read on these boards daily from radio wannabees or people who washed out of the business or never made it in the first place. I don't know what axe you have to grind against CNN, but your effort to belittle the working environment over there is just petty. The network pays well, the company benefits are some of the best anywhere. Given how few radio jobs are actually left in this shrinking market, CNN Radio remains one of the premier places around here to work (I wonder if people say the same thing about Fox Radio?).
 
Because you're just starting a flame, here, out of some problem you have. If Tyler knew the answer, why'd he ask in the first place? And don't be stupid, you don't call unknown people and ask "how much do you make?" And in 1984, CNN Radio, as I pointed out, was nothing but a simulcast of Headline News.

And listen, because you obviously have a problem in not being first to post these "facts" of yours, calm down. I'm not on your case.

You're just wrong. The NewsSource job does pay more. You are correct. And whether you work in Atlanta or LA or New York, they have editors at all the bureaus...you should know that.

Incidentally, because you don't know, I've been a CNN Radio affiliate first through CNN, then through Westwood One and now through Dial Global since 1991. So, lighten up, just a little. If you counted bennies on this "writer/editor" deal ... I'd be hard pressed to say it would pay $25 a hour. Lots of people come and go through CNN's divisions.

And the guy who posted about the sat operator ... I guess he's not telling the truth, too?

Who are you, Wolf Blitzer?

As for Fox News, yeah ... they pay pretty well, actually and are growing. Incidentally, all I said was "$12 ... it's CNN." If you think that's disparaging, that's your problem. I happen to think the radio division is pretty cheap and I'm entitled to that opinon, just as you are.

Got a problem with that or do you want to just try to shove your left-wing political agenda around, too, ace?

Shame you're not a card-carrying member of the RTNDA. You should be. I am...and damn proud of it. CNN Radio isn't ABC, CBS or FOX. In fact, it's not even USA Radio in my opinion. I get it because it's free.

Oh, and as for "working environment," I never said anything about "environment." The facilities from D.C. on down the line are first rate. I've been there. Stayed at the hotel, even. Nice place there in Atlanta.
 
If your information wasn't so thoroughly wrong, and biased, it would be worth a big laugh. As far as my "left wing" agenda, I think that comment pretty much reveals where you're coming from. I'm actually the morning anchor at the local Fox affiliate, so I'm fairly certain agenda has nothing to do with this discussion.
Here's the bit of history you managed to miss. In May 1984, CNN Radio became a full service radio network after getting its start as a Headline News simulcast. I was hired in August 1984 and replaced Don Rooney who had been the morning anchor. I held that position until March 2005. In those days, we did ten minute newscasts at the top of the hour and filled with Headline features. The Westwood marketing deal did not take place until a couple of years after that, and it wasn't even Westwood in those days; it was called something else. Anyway, there's little point in casting doubt on my credentials. I'm still close enough to those guys to know what's going on, and that includes salary since a couple of people from my station have made the jump over there recently, and we've interviewed CNN Radio people for openings as well.
CNN Radio is a completely separate entity from television and the only person connected directly with the radio network in LA is correspondent Jim Roope. What a video editor makes working at an entry level position in the basement of the bureau isn't terribly relevant to radio salaries, which are budgeted from a different source.
I really don't have much more to add except to repeat what I said before. Despite your floundering around for bogus evidence to legitimize your "opinion" ($12... it's CNN) it was nothing more than a cheap shot. And you know it.
 
Who Cares??? A job's a job. In this market be thankful for whatever you get. Just apply for the job and find out for yourself how much it pays.
 
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