Pros
The only good thing about working at DFM is the fact that the horribly understaffed newsrooms make a great learning experience for freshly graduated journalists since each staffer has to work every single role.
Cons
Where to start? No raises in my newsroom since 2007. Several college-educated employees making $1 to $2 an hour more than minimum wage. Horrible employee morale. Equipment was constantly breaking, and since DFM had laid off the office IT staff, reporters had to start using their own personal equipment for work purposes. Every single person was overworked and underpaid. The gender pay gap was present. Company has no idea what it is doing and constantly introduces new sure-to-fail initiatives and mandatory "busy work" - such as performance tracking spreadsheets - that nobody has time for. Employees often left out of the loop and forced to rely on gossip blogs for company information, since higher-ups never bothered to let lower-level employees know about company ongoings.