Some news jobs could be available soon I Atlanta

[AMRocks]

According to this release, iHeart will be hiring to all local news on all of their BIN stations. Atlanta is so big and a high density black market, that I'm guessing they will actually add people in the market. Not so much I. Smaller ones. I'm also betting they will be doing the news updates for the BIN stations in smaller nearby markets like
Augusta GA,
Birmingham AL,
Columbus GA,
Greenville SC,
....and more, I'm sure.

Black Information Network To Expand Local News Coverage - RadioInsight

iHeartMedia’s “Black Information Network” has announced it will expand local news coverage in all 32 of its markets starting in January 2022. As it prepares to ramp up the coverage, the company states it will begin to fill multiple new positions at the network including multiple news anchor and...

radioinsight.com

 

[secondchoice]

If it was straight “rip and read” one or two folks could do the entire southeast. But if you are doing local news there is the question of news gathering. Someone has to be on a first name bases with the PIO (police information officer) and local politicos. iHeart could go cheap and use local TV stations. That didn’t work so well for 106.7. Personally, I would make a deal with the AJC and or a local black owned newspaper or news website. Relying on social media sites would require some fact checking which could be expensive if iHeart used “bogus” reports and someone sued them.

 

[AMRocks]

If it was straight “rip and read” one or two folks could do the entire southeast. But if you are doing local news there is the question of news gathering. Someone has to be on a first name bases with the PIO (police information officer) and local politicos. iHeart could go cheap and use local TV stations. That didn’t work so well for 106.7. Personally, I would make a deal with the AJC and or a local black owned newspaper or news website. Relying on social media sites would require some fact checking which could be expensive if iHeart used “bogus” reports and someone sued them.

I think this will be a hybrid of rip and read. There will be likely no news gathering. But they will rewrite stuff from local newspapers and from TV station news websites. I can't imagine they will use sound for much of anything, at least at the start. It's also unlikely that iHeart will make any deal with any newspaper or TV station in the market unless it doesn't involve any cash at all. The only reason they would make those deals is to use sound from the station and use stories from the website. "Stealing" from news websites (written stuff only) is quite common. If it's an exclusive story, all they have to do is credit the TV station or paper.

 

[LegalTender]

An "all-news radio" network not using "sound for much of anything" seems inconceivable. Financial constraints, aside.

Fair use of material and YouTube are well-oiled turnstiles.

 

[TheBigA]

I think this will be a hybrid of rip and read. There will be likely no news gathering.

And yet the story says they will be hiring reporters. So there will be news gathering. But keep in mind that process has changed in the last 20 years.

The "rip and read" phrase came from the days when stations subscribed to the AP or UPI wires and had teletypes in their office. They rip the copy off the teletype machine, and read it on the air. That's not the way news works now. There are dozens of online news services for broadcast. Obviously iHeart has its own in-house news service called Total News & Traffic. Some of it comes from existing media, some of it is enterprise reporting.

As for the use of audio, it's not expensive or difficult to record phone calls. People have been doing that for 60 years. It's still a very common practice. The national audio is very accessible. Local audio is also easy to get. For example, there's a big accident on the highway, people are tweeting about it on social media, so the reporter messages one of the witnesses, and gets them to call in on their cell phone. Instant eyewitness audio. Happens all the time.