Young channel acquiring hot reporter (9)
I believe the answer is:
newshound
'reporter' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'young channel acquiring hot' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'young' could be 'new' (similar in meaning) and 'new' is found within the answer.
'hot' could be 'h' (abbreviation eg on taps) and 'h' is present in the answer.
'channel' could be 'sound' (synonyms) and 'sound' is found in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for newshound that I've seen before include "assiduous seeker of stories" , "Paper reporter" , "American journalist" , "He's after a story" , "read this person's reports?" .)