Anyone who worked in radio or TV stations prior to the computer and satellite era,  which began in the early '80s,  will remember how the news they delivered on-the-air reached them. The gathering and reporting  of the news by radio has come a long ways since the beginning of broadcasting.   In the "old days" the news,  supplied by reporters around the world,  was fed to radio stations around the country primarily by telephone data and voice lines  (teletype machines and voice networks.).  Many stations were affiliated with a major network like NBC, CBS, ABC, & Mutual, to name a few, which was delivered by a newsreaders over network lines.    Additionally,  stations received news via teletype networks including United Press and Associated Press. (See "News delivered by teletype systems")  and local news copy which was prepared and delivered from local their stations as depicted in the photos below.   Today,  satellites have become the transport method and computers greatly assist the newsreaders delivering the news on-the-air which is shown in the video below.

A typical local news reporting setup included news editors collecting the news from local and national sources (teletype and news networks).  Above photos from the mid 60's show L-R  KTRB's Art Baker reading the news from typed copy.  (2)  United Press International  teletype from which the bulk of the news was received. (3)  KTRB news commentator Barthol W. Pearce  collects news copy for his news shows.  (4)  Long time KTRB news editor Charles McKewn, delivers the news from the news booth. Today computers are a major part of the collecting and reporting of the new.  In the video below you can see how it's done today.