Station's Ratings
News Dirctors
Adam Pursch
Like many news directors, who Adam Pursch portrays himself to be during the interview process is not who he will be once you’re hired. It’s nice that he doesn’t micro-manage, but he’s also practically non-existent. Adam does not give feedback, direction, or respect to his employees. Consequently, the newsroom is a bit of a disaster. This station is last in the market and will stay that way unless drastic changes are made to current management.
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
I can’t imagine anyone being happy working here. It is truly that dysfunctional. Things I was promised when I was hired were immediately ripped out from under me once I arrived. If you are a reporter and they guarantee you a Photog daily, don’t trust them. So many reporters have been forced back into MMJ positions in the recent months. They also limit what content is covered into what they call “buckets”. It’s essentially 4 categories of their choosing and you can’t do any topics outside of those 4 things. This often causes FOX 25 to miss the major stories of the day. No one watches or gives any tips to the station and the assignment editor does not pitch story ideas and NEVER helps make calls. In fact, the assignment editor often lies about making calls, gets caught in his own web of lies, and management still refuses to do anything about it. The photogs carelessly slap stories together and have terrible attitudes. They will make you look like a bad reporter and say to your face they don’t care what the story looks like because they’re just there to collect a paycheck and go home. Adam Pursch shrugs the disrespect and laziness off as an “industry standard”. He truly has no concept of what it takes to hold people accountable or to put out a decent product. It’s almost easier to be an MMJ. However, even then the gear is border line antiquated. It’s worse than what I trained on in college. Sinclair has supposedly been promising the station new cameras for years, but they can’t even afford to give MMJs wireless stick mics. Practically everything FOX 25 puts on air looks blurry. You’ll be hard pressed to find something you’re not embarrassed of for your reel. And if you think you don’t mind being last in the market, you will once you come here. This station is a joke and the competition will treat you as such out in the field. I used to love being a journalist and this station broke me. If you have other options I’d highly recommend you pursue them. FOX 25 is a sinking ship. My advice is to run for the hills while you still can.
Producer Job details
Yearly salary
Contract5 years
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rank4
Adam Pursch
Worst person I’ve ever worked for.
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
Negative environment blamed on staff managers never took ownership for the part they played.
Adam Pursch
Micro manages, belittles employees and has thrown things in the newsroom.
Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment
I’ve seen him talk over a black producer as if she wasn’t there. He micro manages WAY too much. A toxic work environment doesn’t even describe this newsroom.
Behind the scenes is unorganized. I know commutation is less than non at some stations, but the fact that the producer and assignment editor barely talk and they sit right across from each other says a lot. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to apply at this station unless there’s a change in management.
