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News Dirctors
Producer Job details
Yearly salary
Contract6 months
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rank#1
Scott Lawrence
Scott is a nice man for the most part, but completely unfit as a news director. He’s bound by his need to stick his fingers in the prime time newscast. All he does is write, edit, and research for the 6pm show. The other shows don’t matter, and if you work for the 6, expect to want to strangle him for dictating to you exactly what you have to put in the newscast. If you work for another show, expect no help and zero fucks given about how your live shots go or anything else. My show went to black because of master control one day, and he told me “great show! Best one yet.” He didn’t even watch. He’s too busy with everything about the 6, he doesn’t stand up to the toxicity in the newsroom. He’s scared of the anchors, so now they are divas in a small market with a big market mentality and run the newsroom. They made working there hell, and he allowed it.
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
I was bullied for being knowledgeable. An anchor disagreed with me simply because the EP liked me, and they had a bad professional relationship. I was screamed at once for noting quietly to another producer that I didn’t care about the Kardashians and wanted to focus on real news going in my newscast.
Fuck ‘em. My HR manager told me I was smart to leave. They were in transition when I started, so I didn’t sign a contract. She said thank god I didn’t and was happy I had the guts to leave. She apologized and said she was trying to fix the negative, toxic environment.
Reporter Job details
Yearly salary
Contract6 months
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rank
Scott Lawrence
Below average
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
News Director lacks leadership and communication skill. General Manager keeps persons in positions of management with lengthy, toxic, negative history in their HR file. A work environment so toxic, that I left after 6 months. Bullying, harassment, negativity. A newsroom setup for failure. It was my third station and I never experienced worse.
You’ll need all the luck you can get.
