Station's Ratings
News Dirctors
Matt Jarchow
This station is messy, messy, messy. There are only two news cars for 12 reporters, only one but often zero photogs, MMJs are worked into the ground and constantly pressured to be "different." The news product is so bad and weird for the sake of being weird. If you're looking to learn in a newsroom there are more traditional shops for you.
Sexual Discrimination, Racial Discrimination
The journalists of color notice discrimination from the GM on down, the women journalists notice favoritism when it comes to the male workers. Management is trying their best but they are floundering under a cheap GM that makes proclamations but clearly has no understanding of what it means to be a reporter. The people are nice and you won't get screamed at but there are better places to learn.
Producer Job details
Yearly salary
Contract1 Year
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rank#3
Jessie Williams
SHE IS THE WORST
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
The most toxic and unorganized newsroom I’ve ever worked in. Jessie Williams should never have been allowed control. She favors certain reporters and producers and only cares about their success. She actively sabotages employees she doesn’t like.
Stay away, there are plenty of mid-markets better than this one.
Jessie Williams
Very Green. Nice, but can be petty. When going to her with a problem it does not get resolved.
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
When going to the news director, nothing really gets resolved. She works hands on with the producers, while the reporters work with an Executive Producer who came from print. MMJs are overworked stressed and overwhelmed. All of the weight falls on the MMJs. We write anchor vos (for the producers), we are our own photographers, and we’re basically our own digital team. We don’t have an assignment desk, we’re forced to send story pitches a week in advance. And our executive producer (he comes from print, this is his first tv job) approves our scripts. He doesn’t know how to write for tv. A lot of the reporters are miserable and feel over worked, but no one wants listens to them until they quit. We are a fairly new new station and launched in 2020. So far, we have lost 2 photographers. 1 producer, and 3 reporters. There are about 14 MMJs with one photog and no assignment desk. There are not enough stories in the market..
If you do come here, be prepared to work very hard.
