Churn and burn factory - Anonymous employee Local Voice Employee Review

1.0
Sep 11, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Journalists can get true experience in conversion working for a digital news site with a broadcast component

Cons

Ridiculously high turnover Lack of compassion for employees A very VP-heavy hierarchy Poor management of expectations Obsessive to a fault with "the model" Lack of flexibility for operations in different markets A volatile CEO with a "my way or the highway" attitude Daily references to "drinking the Kool-Aid" A toxic workplace culture

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5.0
Sep 11, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Great work culture and a passionate, hard-working team - Constant innovation in a challenging, important industry - Managers care personally about their team - Lots of opportunities to share ideas - Local, community-oriented company

Cons

- Workload is sometimes heavy and expectations are high

1
2.0
Jan 19, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There were several helpful people in the company that I worked with. They've all moved on. Pay is above other newsrooms for the most part but it's to get people interested and hope they stick around.

Cons

Upper management. They don't listen at all. They think they know how to do simple tasks, like social media ads and management, and they don't. They left our newsroom short staffed for months in a market that needed much more than we can could pump out. One of my newsroom colleagues constantly accused me of being "too competitive" to keep me off of their beat, which I was in no way interested in. We were expected to just pump out high-performing content consistently. There's no photographer or social media team so it's really subpar stuff in those aspects. Lots of negative feedback. No matter what you did you were told it just wasn't enough.

3
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