Station's Ratings
News Dirctors
Reporter Job details
Yearly salary$35,000
Contract2-3 years
Paired with a photogLive Shots Only
Station market rank#2
N/A
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
General manager is horrible and only cares about business. Reporters are overworked. Long days, no overtime pay. Poor management. HR guy isn’t even trained, he handles the finances. No regard for concerns of employees. Toxic relationships between coworkers.
Avoid
Producer Job details
Yearly salary$25,000
Contract2 years
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rank#2
Jamie Foster
Jamie places more trust in what he is told about a worker than what that worker actually does. His newsroom has a history of backbiting, and if your coworkers don't like you, be sure to get to him before they do. He places more trust in the first person to complain, than whether or not the complaint is valid. He is also very rude to people he does not like and feels confident in being able to tell at his subordinates, while condemning them if they make someone else feel uncomfortable. I was yelled at for telling him that I was tired of people lying about me to him: his response was "I don't care what you're tired of hearing," which he yelled loud enough that the entire newsroom could hear it through his closed office closed door.
Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment
I entered the newsroom with the most experience and education, and knew my time at this station would be uncomfortable from the first day I walked through the door. Jamie pretended to feel sad when I told him on my last day that I never felt welcome there, but it was his poor management as a news director that encouraged lying by my coworkers... whose main complaint was how much I wore my headphones. There was not much complaint on the quality of my work, but i was often called lazy and standoffish by coworkers who reported anything I said on my social media page... but received pats on the back for the threats they made about me on their accounts.
The station is ratings hungry... and did poor journalism on a daily basis. They actually brought in consultants to teach their producers how to write so that their copy would be more believable: as a news professional, i found that disgusting.
There were a few times when we were introduced to new technology that I had previous experience with; when I said I liked the technology, it was met with scoffs and giggles of disapproval... one man saying in reply to me that he hates the program.
I think the worst part about my experience is that people are more inclined to believe him because he is a news director, and ignore how he dismisses those he doesn't like, to suck up to those he does like: His staff had no respect for him, telling him one thing to his face and another thing behind his back. But they knew he was easily manipulated.
Photographer Job details
Yearly salary$25,000
ContractNo
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rank#2
Jamie Foster
Great. He's awkward when it comes to conversations, but he's honest and would rather you ask a bunch of questions than to not ask any at all.
The producers move very slow. Very slow. And the woman over the web department is nice/nasty and annoying. She's a young and climb up the ladder fast, so she cares about title more than growth.
