Radio news directors were doing most of the decision-making, but less than TV news directors. Those findings are from my Freedom Forum-sponsored survey of 414 news staff at U.S. commercial radio stations. The majority of radio journalists in the work force survey were news directors. An ND was often the only full-time newsperson at the station. When there were others, they were usually anchors, reporters or double-duty newspeople.
Radio is much smaller staffed and less specialized than television.
Table 1 shows that women working in radio news were only a little less likely than men to be news directors. About half of the few minorities in the sample were also news directors. About a third of the radio news work force was female, as has been the case for many years . The numbers stay low. Two out of every five news anchors and reporters were women.