Radio stations seem to either read news off the wires or use local TV reporters. My local channel 7 News (ABC) has a sister station (radio) and the tv weather and news reporters do the radio too.
Are radio journalists still employed anywhere? Real journalists that cover local news and don’t simply read it off the wire?
Any information on the last radio stations with reporters?
Maybe rural radio stations still send out reporters? Find out that farmer Brown’s milk cow got out or something.
Most local NPR stations have their own, real reporters.
I was a volunteer reporter for a community radio station for about 3 years. This was 2009-2012.
A list of all-news stations streaming on the Internet. I’m assuming that all-news stations in major markets have some reporters of their own, but I can’t say for sure.
WINS in New York certainly does:
I’m relieved to hear theres still some radio reporters left.
I’ve noticed some of my local tv reporters don’t have good radio voices. I’m glad my radio station is getting local news, but its not quite the same. Radio broadcasters have a different delivery style than tv. They write news scripts differently because they have to *describe *the news events.
All-news stations still use reporters.
Most local stations never had actual reporters, other than Rip N. Reed from the AP newswire or the local paper.
I was a reporter who covered the cop shop and the usual variety of “street” reporting for stations in the late '70s and early '80s, as well as sometime anchor duties (this was in a mid-major market where there was competition from at least two other stations). A casual search shows that there are still such jobs out there.
I listen occasionally to all-news stations in places like Detroit, New York and Philadelphia (skywave is a nice thing) and their local news coverage still depends on having reporters out in the field.
You seem to think that your radio station uses TV reporters. Maybe it is your tv station that uses radio reporters!
No, its the tv reporters on my radio. 
Melinda Mayo is channel 7’s morning meteorologist and I hear her forecast on my clock radio when I wake up. Probably pre-taped. Channel 7’s assignment reporters do the hourly news updates I’d guess they pre-record two or three updates a day.
I’ve never heard the station’s main evening anchors do any radio reports.
I know someone who was employed as a city hall reporter by WCBS in NYC in the last five years. She’s not any more, so I guess they may have laid everyone off, but probably not.
In LA, one of the NPR stations, KPCC, has a quite extensive reporting staff including a Washington correspondent and a Sacramento correspondent. I get the sense that some of the reporters probably have other jobs, or report for other outlets as well, as their beats don’t produce stories every day (eg “childhood and early education correspondent”).
KPCC also has a news-sharing deal with KNBC-4, the TV channel, which usually comes into play when there’s a very big local story–KNBC has more resources to devote to breaking news. And KNBC personnel sometimes guest-host on the radio, but rarely. I’ve never looked at the TV side but I assume the radio reporters show up there when they have a hot story that KNBC hasn’t covered.
Hope this helps.
WLS-AM in Chicago still has actual newsreaders for their local-origination programs as well as a City Hall reporter.
KFI in Los Angeles (which isn’t a dedicated news station) has a considerable news staff, including 4 full time reporters:
KMBZ in Kansas City still has a couple of reporters. Bill Grady is the name that comes to mind.
Les Nessman.
it had to be said.