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Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

NBC Universal has gone through a massive change to DEI only hires. If you are not DEI, you do not matter. If you ARE DEI , you can come in late, do poor work and not get called out on it. It's sad, but true. The entire newsroom feels this way and often when the employee surveys come back they are in panic mode.

LOTS of major management positions are now run by people "training on the job". The GM, has no news judgement (and admits it) and has never been a GM before. The News Director has zero winning "formula" she brings to the table. Her attitude is, "Let's just make it on the air". You will literally see the same stories over and over in any given newscast. I am encouraged to put things in that simply "fill time" She is also passive aggressive and if you challenge her in any way, you'll be placed on the naughty list never to return in her good graces again. She is very INSECURE. She will only hire unattractive females because it makes her feel better. It's a fact! There are a number of other roles that are run by trainees. For example, our Creative Services director was a production assistant about 10 years ago ???
The station used to win and want to win. Now, it's just to keep the station from airing color bars. I stay for a paycheck until I can get another job.

Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

I recently left after the morning ep and managing editor (who are married) consistently assigned certain stories to white reporters and other stories for black or brown reporters. Same thing with their news coverage.

The EP has been fired for his actions but the Managing Editor is still employed, for now. Steer clear of that place they keep bad employees a long time.

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

There are inexperienced people in positions of management that should not be there. Specifically an EP, managing editor as well as a few other people that have "risen to power" in between massive ND and GM upheavles over the years - a lot of uneducated chiefs and not enough i dians ( can we still say that??)

Run from this o and o it has been turned i to a training ground for wanna lbe management ( even the current gm is a creative services director turned gm.. what? )

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

RUN! AM EP and Assignment Desk Manager have no idea what they're doing. Producers are the heart and soul of this business...not here! People are dropping like flies and rethinking their career choices because of how poorly Producers have been treated. Save yourself the time and stress and apply somewhere else! Opportunities for growth don't exist here. Aggressive newsgathering doesn't exist here. Good news judgement and neutrality do not exist here. RUN!

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

The management team, specifically the AND and Managing Editor are completely dysfunctional. There is almost zero communication with staff on major issues. We’ve had several people go on maternity leave over the last few months and their replacements weren’t told until days before. Producers are salaries and not given overtime, but consistently forced to work 10-12 hour days with no compensation. Reporters are often asked to stay late and cover other shows but they are unionised and paid hourly. Serious advice: if you do not have a weather focus, *do not* apply. You will not be happy. Very little enterprise reporting done here, stories are basically weather related, minor “breaking news” (ie. car crash, small fire) or a copy of what the competition or local paper did a few days ago. New ideas or suggestions are generally shot down. Assignment desk (managing editor) and AND make *all* of the story decisions, reporters don’t pitch and are discouraged from weighing in, they just show up and are assigned a story. Please be cautious accepting a job here. The only reason it’s worth it is because it’s an O&O and typically pays more than the competition.

There’s a reason this station suffers in the ratings and is constantly understaffed.