WCMH

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Toxic fits.

You get what you pay for.
Too many inexperienced people that should not be working in a Top 40 market. Nexstar cares about profit and political posturing.
The Big J here is a Big Joke.

Sexual Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Created a newsroom of fear & distrust of gut instincts and local knowledge. Leads by fear and questioning. Looks down on pregnant women or those who have small children.

Unsupportive & backstabbing colleagues. Or completely self-absorbed and/or selfish. Few people to trust. Real lack of a team environment under current management, from the GM down to the ND and Assistant ND.

Sexual Harassment, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Pregnant employees are treated like a burden. People are overworked, underpaid, and unhappy. Much of upper management and all of our photographers are men.

I could say the problems began with Nexstar but the buyout of Media General only made things worse. Reporters work with old and unreliable equipment: cameras, trucks, etc. We are reprimanded for getting overtime because we “don’t have it in the budget” so some reporters and photographers do not report their overtime or do not take a lunch break. Our most senior weatherman has been forced to work double shifts on the weekend for months for some reason.

Our news director is inconsistent with what he expects of us and how he treats us. He will give a certain direction one day and totally change his mind a week later if he remembers his conversation with you at all. He thrives on confrontation and can be a bit of a bully. He will even walk through the newsroom muttering about us. He and our GM seem more interested in saving money and desperately self-promoting ourselves than in running a competent, cohesive newsroom where employees feel valued. Upper management do not communicate well with one another or with the rest of the newsroom and several do not have local knowledge of what stories are important. It is no wonder people are leaving and/or looking for other jobs.

Sexual Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

No support for the assignment desk from upper management, refusal to backfill positions that have been vacant for years, refusal to appropriately staff weekend shifts when big events are happening, taking away half of the job I originally agreed to (digital production), treating female assignment editors like they're secretaries for the one male assignment editor