An agreement between the National Radio News (NRN), based at Charles Sturt University (CSU), and community radio station, 2MBS has expanded the number of stations subscribing the NRN’s news service to 93. NRN provides regular national radio news to nearly 4 million listeners on community radio stations across Australia in metropolitan, regional and remote areas. Based in Sydney, 2MBS is considered a national “flagship” station of community radio, with over 400 000 residents in the broadcast area. Six CSU communication students are employed as cadets by NRN for 15 months and regularly record news stories while supervised by working journalists. “NRN is not a classroom – our students work in a real newsroom with real pressures to produce 13 live, daily news bulletins for a national audience,” said NRN manager Peter Hetherington. “Exposure on such large stations is great experience for our students.”