WBTW

Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

negative environment to work for

if you you want to fail; wbtw is the place to be. management won’t

help you succeed.

give you proper training.

give you heads up on days you will be working for someone else.

give you feedback.

they act like the last station in this DMA. be prepared to do extra work other than mmj. people hate this station. contact former and current employees and do your homework before signing to this awful station

It was a Fun place for me to work. I really enjoyed it and learned a few new things. If you are starting out as a first time MMJ you will need to adjust to it. Working at night sometimes by yourself is not fun but if you feel unsafe and explain that to the News Director he will work with you on this. Some people have recently left Wbtw and gave this station a Toxic workplace. These employees were lazy and Toxic themselves who complained about everyone and everything. If you put forth your best effort, you will be rewarded with a possible promotion but if you don’t get one, you will definitely be better off for the next job that comes your way!

Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

The overall feel for this newsroom is toxic. If you work in the bureau, you are expected to do a lot more with very little resources, and absolutely no help. In less than two years, five reporters have either quit or been fired and four of them were in the bureau. The Assistant News Director quit in October, and two bureau reporters quit for the same reason in November. There is documented evidence of unequal treatment, disregard for safety, and discrepancies in policies. The one photographer in the bureau does not work with the reporters. The News Director created a position for a night-side photographer in Myrtle Beach, but did not do that for the bureau. There is currently one person working in the bureau (MMJ) and there's a reason. I would suggest doing research and reaching out to the former bureau reporters before accepting ANYTHING. The General Manager, News Director, Assignment Manager, Executive Producer, and EVEN HR are NOT on your side. HR is not a safe space, and does not document anything, but will rather take the side of WBTW. The managers do not know anything about the bureau, and often times stories go un-reported because they don't think the news important. The bureau will always come second, and I was told this by managers. Overall, it's an UNHEALTHY work space.

Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Racial discrimination. All of the black/Hispanic/and most of the dark haired white people get placed in the bureau. All of the blondes are at the beach. In the past year, FIVE bureau reporters quit/were fired. And between September and November 2018, two beach reporters, the assistant news director, and two bureau reporters left all for similar reasons: blatant disregard for safety and lack of support in the field. You’ll be sent to notoriously dangerous places by yourself and you’ll be questioned when you tell management that you don’t feel safe. If you work in the bureau, assume you’ll never work with the photographer. And on the RARE occasion that he’s assigned to work with you (I was assigned to work with him fewer than 20 times during my time at News13), he’ll make excuses as to why he can’t show up. He’d rather cover trick-or-treating events than court hearings. You’ll never get adequate training. Training periods (at least a few weeks of training before you’re thrown into the fire) are not a thing here. Managers just want people on-air as quickly as possible because they keep losing people so rapidly. They’ll tell you how much they care about your success here but their actions and constant disregard for your concerns prove otherwise. Management is full of liars. They’ll set up meetings with you and when you show up on time, they’ll tell the boss that you were hours late. Keep ALL emails. You’ll need them to defend yourself when management decides to lie on you. And trust me, they will.

Don’t work here. I would recommend this station to my worst enemy or the devil himself.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Walters delegates decisions regularly to an additional cast of managers who in the year since the Nexstar purchase have only grown more and more hostile to less-than-traditional newsgathering and journalism. This would usually manifest in many solid pitches being torn apart for lack of irrelevant details, or because the management/producers didnt know enough about the story/region to offer an opinion at all. Communication was terrible. Reprimands were given often. Emotional/career support or praise, hardly ever. Just a negative place to try and get a start in an already difficult industry.

I shook my head as I checked the box marked "Educational," because I learned here that there will always be people who think they know best, and sometimes those people are your bosses. I saw/heard some colleagues berated for their story choices, watched producers break informational stories down into "gotcha" tales, searching in vain for controversy where there was none, and alienating reporters sources, just because they wanted clicks on social media. Management is negative and unorganized and here is why-- WBTW is more than 60 years old. They are trying to do the "serious" old-school news in Myrtle Beach, and are falling further into the crack they made themselves.