Hearst Reviews

Pros

Amazing benefits, great team, beautiful building, exposure to senior team

Cons

Not enough job growth to keep employees.

Pros

Large corporation benefits packages are attractive. Hearst recently added paternity leave. I'm happy with my pay and feel comfortable asking for a raise if I wasn't happy. My colleagues locally are friendly and easy to work with. I'm satisfied with the management team.

Cons

Hearst is enormous. You are a small cog in the wheel here for sure.

Advice to Management

Continue to let news outlets decide for themselves. Do not go down the path, as other media companies have, sending "must-runs" that have an obvious slant. Keep letting news do it's job without interference.

Pros

I didn’t have a heart attack while I worked there

Cons

After working in My market for almost 4 years, I can honestly say I was relieved when I walked out of the building for the last time. Never in my life have I ever worked for a company that allowed such a toxic, abusive work environment to thrive. Anchors are their life and if they aren’t happy, NO ONE is happy. On multiple occasions the news director would be screaming from his office, the newsroom and control room...

Pros

Knowledgeable Corporate Management who was always willing to help and train.

Cons

The workload could be very chaotic at times. A lot of long days.

Pros

- Mediocre Benefits - Co-workers are usually on the same page with you - Decent Pay

Cons

- Almost no opportunity for growth. - Management loves playing favorites. It's not about how hard you work, it's about who you're buddy-buddy with. Hard working employees get almost no recognition. Brown-nosing employees get all of it. - Absolutely no company structure. - Your title and role don't mean anything to anyone. A editor from one department can be doing the same work as a director or VP from another. - They...

Advice to Management

Establish meaningful job titles and roles. Be as transparent as possible. Stop overworking your employees. Get Executive Leadership that actually knows what it's doing rather than pointless cutting jobs and expecting existing employees to pick up the pace with no increase in their salary.

Pros

Once you survive working for this crowd, you can work for anyone. Benefits are standard.

Cons

From my experience management cares about money, not the people making it for them. You work hard & you are loyal, but they are not. WAPT leadership won’t care about your health, your family, or you! You are locked in like a slave because you are FORCED to sign non-compete agreements. Those only benefit this corporation & in no way help you as an employee. This is a toxic place to work and we were managed by...

Advice to Management

Stop talking about your former employees to the people who respect them, because they repeat everything you say. makes you look desperate to cover up why all your good people left and you can’t recover with the you scraped up! When numbers and sales are down, maybe managers aren’t qualified for the job.

Pros

Great learning experience if you want to know how a major online publication works and network with the industry's top editors.

Cons

1000 hour limit on contract, overworked

Pros

They like to promote from within.

Cons

They pay upper management too much compared to middle management.