You're describing a microphone / voice recorder, not a journalist. There are of course places you can go to get raw weather data, but a journalist might put it

You're describing a microphone / voice recorder, not a journalist. There are of course places you can go to get raw weather data, but a journalist might put it in context of what else is going on, interview farmers or climatologists about the situation, etc. There are lots of kinds of journalism, but maybe most important is investigative journalism. They are literally doing an investigation - reading source material, actively seeking out the right people to interview and asking them right questions, following the leads to more information.