WGXA

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

As a news director, Jenna is very competitive and wants the station as a whole to do well. That's where the positivity stops. She made false promises to me and I was only able to do maybe 20% was I was promised. She makes false promises to all new hires and will regularly backstab reporters. There is absolutely awful communication between management and newsroom staff. I really warn anybody considering working here. I saw a bunch of bright new hires come in during my time and they were thrown the bs right away. Take your talents where they'll be appreciated. Reporters have to "earn" a photog by Jenna's made up criteria that is ever changing. You'll never realistically get a photog but maybe twice during your contract.

This was the most confusing internship experience of my life and I would not recommend working here unless it's the only place you can get an internship. Sinclair has so many rules on what interns can and cannot do and the News Director would allow you to do things only when it was convenient to her. You eventually have to go behind management's back to get stuff done only to be told you can, in fact, do that, only to be told to stop doing it because "it's against the rules". You will never have your work on air and if you write for web, your name is not allowed to be on the byline.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

There was no open communication between reporters and management. If an assignment feel through reporters were told to figure it out but management got frustrated when the task wasn't completed properly. There were safety concerns for reporters.

An overall toxic and unorganized work environment.
Contracts "can not" be broken without them threatening you with thousands of dollars in damages.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Jenna pits people against each other and pushes out good talent. You'll volunteer to help and get stuck with a crappy shift or no days off for months at a time.

Jenna her her pet Mallory Huff have the same last name but they're not related. They're two incompetent bitchy peas in a pod. The GM is toxic as well. Stay away unless you like getting your job threatened every day and making peanuts for years to get your "experience".

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

The station has lots of potential, but it just never has a sense of direction when it comes to the types of stories to cover and misses the mark most of the time, compared to the legacy station in the market. Management (Jenna Huff) is manipulative and really doesn't care about the staff. She pits reporters against one another in negative competition, makes false promises and creates a hostile work environment. She developed a "leadership team" of "yes men" including the Executive Producer who has no clue as to what she's doing and is very lazy, but only pretends as if she want's to help and can't work under pressure. The EP is Jenna's right hand and agrees with everything Jenna says and does as if she doesn't have a brain of her own. The Assistant News Director has a great attitude but is so overly dramatic and freaks out about everything. She plays more of an EP role than the actual EP who has no idea how to lead a news room. The Assignment Editor is a former producer at the station who seems to hate his job and is miserable. He talks to staff like they are the scum of the earth and will never help with researching information of finding contacts, he's useless.

Everything is mandated by Sinclair. We ran all types of content "Must Runs" because corporate said so. When I first started working at WGXA I liked it, but then I saw the place for what it was. They took my photographer away and made me cover stories in the ghetto alone. Women can't even wear their shoulders out because Jenna says so, with no real reason as to why. Glad I got out when I had the chance through the company's upward mobility program. The station isn't even in HD and it's soon to be 2018.