Unoriginal journo with requirement to be heard (9)
I believe the answer is:
hackneyed
'unoriginal' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)
'journo with requirement to be heard' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'journo' could be 'hack' (I've seen this before) and 'hack' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
(Other definitions for hackneyed that I've seen before include "using familiar phraseology?" , "pedestrian" , "corny" , "Overfamiliar through overuse" , "Stereotyped" .)