Ambitious Journalist Seeking New Opportunities and Challenges in the Media Industry - Journalist/Reporter First News Employee Review

Empathetic leaders, a wonderful team and a truly fabulous product. I had autonomy over my role, creative freedom to run with ideas and lots of opportunities for progression. I felt nurtured and supported by leadership and the business became like a family to me. There are lots of opportunities for collaborations across teams, with external partners and with in person events - a great place to learn lots and develop as a marketeer. My favourite place I have worked in my career to date.

There is no sales team so, at times, this could be quite stressful on marketing with ambitious targets.

Colleagues are dedicated and hard working.

Management are confused an ineffective and have an incoherent, poorly communicated strategy. Owners are generally knee-jerk in their priorities. The board and SLT are too scared to challenge them which creates a stressful environment as they have little awareness of the effort required to carry out most functions. Staff work long hours with very little reward outside their salary. The fact that the company lists statutory entitlements as a job benefit should tell you all you need to know,