Hearst reviews

Hearst - Argyle has a very cookie - cutter brand at each station. This seems to limit each individual station to have its own identity. It can also be creatively stifling. In my experience, Hearst - Argyle operates on a shoe string budget, and lacks basic technology that allows reporters to do their jobs efficiently. Reporters are not provided with station cell phones. Reporters were given laptops, but (according to station management) Hearst's security policy does not allow broadband access. Therefore, the laptops are useless in the field, as reporters cannot access ENPS. My station has a live truck that has been out of commission for well over a year, and has not been replaced. It's been referred to as "a giant paper weight." Our ability to go live is severely limited by the inadequate microwave sites. My station's staff is so small; we routinely put a mediocre product on the air, because each employee has to produce more than any one employee should have to produce. Positions are posted, and never filled. The station could not cut any position with-in the news department, because we're already operating on a skeleton crew.

Internally, everything was a secret, and even the staff would often find out about essential news about your own magazine from outside sources before the top editors would even admit it, which definitely made us look bad. The way people were promoted made no sense. The ones who went home everyday at 5:30 were the ones who got promoted numerous times while the ones who were still working their butts off, burning the midnight oil, were the lowest paid and never acknowledged for their extra work. Also, I've never paid so much copay on medical benefits as I have at Hearst.