2025 Radio Staffing Report

The latest RTDNA/Newhouse School at Syracuse University Survey shows the typical (median) radio news operation in 2025 has a full-time news staff of one. You may recall that last year, the median staffing number doubled to two, marking the first time this milestone was reached in the survey’s history. The change was driven by responses from non-commercial radio stations reporting a median of three news staff, but it was short-lived. 

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