Station's Ratings
News Dirctors
She is not a nice person. She hides in her office all day and leaves half an hour early. Extremely difficult to get a hold of and will act as if you are inconveniencing her for having meetings with her that she requested. Does not care about employee mental health or wellbeing. Allows anchors and producers to terrorize the entire newsroom on a daily basis. Allows multiple employees to call off due to hangovers and pits employees against each other.
Sexual Harassment, An Overall Toxic Work Environment
The producers there, particularly the senior producer who trained me, are the nastiest, most demeaning and emotionally unstable people I have ever met in my life. Within a month I had been screamed at, berated, and insulted to the point of tears several times. So many there are gossipy, incompetent and inexperienced. I was very put off by the amount of extremely young, childish, and arrogant people taking up space in a Top 20 market. I felt second hand embarrassment watching people make amateurish mistakes while talking down to others who didn't start in that market (because they worked their way up.) Most employees there are too preoccupied with drinking and attentiom seeking to do their jobs. The two lead anchors are the meanest, most miserable people I have ever met, and ive met many unpleasant people. If you want to be torn apart and insulted by inexperienced, wannabe-manager producers while actual management hides and cowers and have coworkers with no experience who act like teenagers, then Fox40 is the place for you!
Lowest rated station in the market. Top 20 market that hires HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES since no journalist with common sense would set foot inside.
Assignment Editor Job details
Yearly salary
Contract2 years
Paired with a photogN/A
Station market rank4
Monika Diaz
Terrible, stressful, demeaning, unwilling to compromise, not understanding, rude, took advantage of employee's willingness and nice demeanor
An Overall Toxic Work Environment
This was the worst job I've ever had. The overall work environment was toxic and hostile. Employees in the newsroom were incredibly cliquey, rude, belittling, unhappy and demanding. The station is poorly run -- and upper management does not handle employee complaints and concerns well. I was treated with complete disrespect by the news director and others. The newsroom is incredibly toxic -- producers vs. everyone else. It was an absolutely terrible place to work and if you're thinking about working there -- I'd run the other way. As a young, eager journalist, I was walked all over and threatened when I wanted to quit. It was a soul-crushing experience and nearly ruined my perception of television news. Terrible management and a lot of terrible employees. Management has no clue of the environment in the newsroom -- and fails to change the hostility and toxicity. Would not recommend.
Avoid at all costs
