WANE

Sexual Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Jenna doesn’t like Black people or essentially anyone who is not White, Christian and a suck up.

Run!!!! You don’t have to trust the reviews, but they speak for themselves.

Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

I've experienced countless moments of racial discrimination encounters with current News DIrector, Jenna Huff. She never takes responbililty for her actions, she just puts it on someone else. She's not a team player - it's either her way or no way. She looks at others as beneath her. This is not a safe place for people of color.

No matter how much you complain, nothing gets done.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Got it how’s this… Since Jenna Huff has been news director at WANE 15 at least 14 passionate journalists have left the station and a majority of them have left the industry and majority of those leaving are people who would normally be consider “lifers.” Huff requires reporters to have 2 stories set in stone before their shift for the day but if she does not like them had reporters cancel, which has made it difficult for reporters to keep contacts and sources. Huff belittles reporters, especially if she does not like their story ideas and discourages reporters and photographers from covering events in surrounding counties. Huff often yells at reporters and threatens to fire employees in front of other employees. When reporters or photographers show an interest in moving to another station within Nexstar Huff makes it difficult to transfer and then tells the newsroom “(reporter name) is dead to us” and “if you don’t want to be here I don’t want you here.” The pay is poor, the news director leadership is poor and what used to be the 1 station in the market has slipped to 2. The only positive is that when Huff does belittle an employee the others are there with tissues because the day before they were being told they’d “never be a good reporter”

WANE was the place to work BEFORE Huff. The fact Nexstar corporate has yet to respond and step up is a slap in the fast of all the hardworking people who made WANE 15 the number one station and those reporter struggling with a toxic boss and mental health.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

News director sets unreasonable work expectations and how strict she is with them entirely depends on how much she likes the person. Makes snap decisions regardless of how many people disagree with her and will change the subject or ignore phone calls when she's done talking about it.

WANE went from being a station where people genuinely enjoyed working at to a place where people are miserable. Around 14 people have left in the last year (compared to 1 person the year before) after a change in leadership and now new hires are being thrust into their jobs with little training but high expectations. Pay is poor and news director refuses to negotiate. Mental health for many news staff is not great, and it's now become about getting by and staying out of the line of fire rather than putting out great content.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Only writing this so anyone thinking about working here will strongly reconsider. Working for Jenna Huff is like trying to hit a moving target. She's confusing and hard to work for. She's moody, will play mind games and talk about employees to other employees. Jenna's been here for 14 months and since then 14 employees have left. No idea how that fact alone doesn't raise red flags with upper management. Everyone in the newsroom is beyond miserable.