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Too true Scott, mentoring is a handy way to help prevent and catch the errors we all make when we start out. Supervision is not just lacking in radio - on TV the other day a reporter's voiceover quoted a Facebook post about a tragedy, saying "rip (name)" when she should have said R.I.P.
There's so much truth in this. I've been in one radio newsroom where exactly what you've described took place, and another that was shut down and replaced with another news service (which doesn't at all meet the needs of those listeners and completely lacks continuity with content). I was that senior journalist with a decade's experience and I'm now out of the industry: partly due to disillusionment with the industry, partly because I knew there wouldn't be an appropriate role for me. It's a sad state of affairs, and a lot of talent has been, and will continue to be lost because of this trend.
Radio will continue to lose relevance while networks gut newsrooms and sack journalists. News generation is labor intensive but managers prefer boosting the $$ bottom line rather than investing in news content, keeping talent and training new recruits. Radio is dying faster because so many newsrooms closed and local news content is gone as listeners turn to their fones for news, music, info.it will take legislation before commercial radio journalism ever emerges again as a force in our media.