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My time at KWQC was nothing but miserable. In the time that I was there, we went through 4 news directors in my less than 2 years working there. If you are expecting growth in your career, I suggest you go anywhere besides KWQC TV6 news as they traumatize their employees with their lack of communication and leadership. I have never worked for an organization so unprofessional, disorganized, and led by a team of managers who refuse to do work. They sit in the conference room all day having “meetings” and nothing productive comes from the closed door “meetings” because they are not talking about anything productive, they just gossip about employees. I have never felt so disrespected and taken advantage of. My time at KWQC TV6 News Station in DAVENPORT, IA was an experience I hope I hopefully can forget. As a minority, I was met with racist comments from a senior anchor and my news director as well. I find it very unbelievable that a station as poorly run as KWQC is still operating after losing 13 employees in less than 1 year. Mind you, we also went through 2 general managers. The current general manager disrespects women and doesn’t respect minority culture. He also has no respect for the only black television show in this market that is at his station. Employees leave meetings crying because of the disrespect and their inability to train. I really want to emphasize that they do not communicate. So if you decide you would like to be part of that toxic environment, just know you will have an assignment manager that will change your reporter story as you are in the middle of an interview for the reporter story she originally sent you on. And it will be your fault. 0/10. Highly don’t recommend! Thanks!

Pretty good. They do a lot of clever things which is nice. There's an emphasis on being clever and creative. The ND and especially the Assistant News Director drive the place. For the 11pm the anchor calls a lot of the shots. Beware it's clicky and hyper local. Not many people are from outside the DMA, which is a strength I guess. But at the same time, it means few people have relevant experience from another station or market. It's kind of collegiate. I'd suggest interviewing in person and getting to know some people while in the newsroom. If you are from the area and have big market experience in an entry level role, and accept a position here, you could do very very well.

As a market it seemed a bit expensive, hold out for a bit more money.

The news director was new and bent over backwards to coddle entitled Gen Z kids, leaving the few experienced journalists in the room to pick up the slack. She removed quality assignment editors, managers and producers from their positions. Do not trust this News Director for one second. She will switch up on you and throw you under the bus in a heartbeat.