WRIC

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!! News director is a bully. Very unpleasant and likes to cross boundary lines. He'll be all nice to you when you first start and then eventually you'll see the real him. The assistant news director isn't fully qualified for her job. If you want to work in local news in Richmond look at the other two stations. You'll be happier.

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

Shane Moreland is the type of news director who will talk down to you, put his hand on you, discuss other employees behind their back and someone who goes back on his promises. Shane often hires from the outside instead of promoting from within, causing those people to leave and find new jobs. He'll make promises to keep people happy then go back on his word. His judgement of news is laughable and it shows in the ratings. Sports is also a disaster with minimal local coverage and it's led by a sports director Shane hired who cannot fulfill the job requirements. Shane is also known for hiring or not hiring someone based on their looks or race. He has been heard criticizing employee outfits and hair styles.

Nexstar is running the station into the ground because of bad leadership from VP/GM Larry Cottrill to Shane Moreland. Staff turnover is high and that will continue with both of them in that building. WRIC only promotes select anchors and reporters. This station has gone from respected on-air and behind the scenes employees to a revolving door.

Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

People of Color are literally treated like they’re stupid or invisible; staff would have ignorant conversations regarding race and when told it was offensive they didn’t care. Some staff would use racial slurs and complaints were ignored. The male evening anchor would yell at producers, and curse them out to the point of bullying them and managers did nothing. The White producers and some staff would try and get people fired or bully them into leaving and when a producer would push back they’d complain about them being difficult to get them written up. If you called out sick Shane would require you to tell him what’s wrong so most people avoided calling out sick. No creative control if you tried something without telling a manager first you were called into the office. Most of the producers have no real newsroom experience so they’re just trying to learn and grow and the older producers would make sure to tell them wrong information.

Don’t work here. It’s probably the most toxic station under the company. No one is happy there or have already left and the people stuck there are probably planning exit strategies. It’s not a team environment, leadership has no clue what they’re doing and it shows. When staff wises up to HR rights and policies, Shane will file a HR complaint against that staffer to build a negative HR file. He’s also called other stations to trash talk employees to prevent them from leaving. Turnover rate is excessive and the pay is terrible.

Sexual Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Just don't work here. The news director will spread your business to everyone so he's can't be trusted and the chief meteorologist and morning meteorologist (and these are grown men) gossips about everyone like women! I can't tell you how many times I've over heard the news director talk bad about everyone to others and telling people's business to others that has no business knowing. The chief meteorologist would stop me in the hallways to talk about how stupid he would think the sports director was (she's a woman) and how stupid he thought the newer meteorologists were. I would try to leave those toxic conversations but he doesn't pick up social cues when someone doesn't want to be part of a conversation. No help or support from anyone. The news directors news judgement is awful. A lot of my stories would get shot down if they were community based. This station is not about community and the news director does not want us hanging or liking our competitions pictures on social media even if they're your friend. Talk about control freak. The male evening anchor is literally insane. I've seen him curse out people and throw things at people (papers, pens) out of frustration.

Whatever you do? DO NOT WORK FOR THIS STATION! From the news director to the chief meteorologist. Just awful people. Not professional and people of color are definitely treated differently. Not in a good way! No one renews their contract there and the turnover rate is extremely high. In this business, people come and go, but no one stays there. From the producers to the talent. The employees that have been there for a long time stay because they can't go anywhere else and those employees bully the younger and newer employees. If you're looking to get help and grow here just know that no one will help you, in fact if the people that have been there for a while do not like you, they will try to get you fired. And they have been successful a few times. Extremely toxic environment and the news director is literally the worst ever. He talks down to you and don't even get me started on how he micromanages everything. He's a liar. If you end up working there.. don't trust anyone. Everyone is miserable there.