Rearranging the Deck Furniture on the Titanic - Anonymous employee TEGNA Employee Review

1.0
Nov 8, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Always looking to reinvent or copy new trends to find an audience and make money despite failing almost every time.

Cons

If you like high pressure and empty promises in an ever declining local TV business then this is the place for you. Tegna's reputation for squeezing employee wages year after year has resulted in distrust with management, high turnover and low employee morale. There's very little advancement from within the departments. In my years there I saw only 1 promotion, about 6 demotions and countless firings. (Note: this company loves to fire people). They just had mass layoffs with their digital services division. One of the only companies I know to have layoffs in the strongest economy in years. Most of the people still there are because they can't find anything better.

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1.0
Jul 8, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work environment - hybrid

Cons

Heavy workload, way below market compensation for the amount of responsibility, very limited advancement opportunities & uneven workload distribution among teams. In my experience, leadership made repeated statements about promotion opportunities in career growth that ultimately did not materialize. I felt that expectations were set that weren’t followed through on, which made it incredibly difficult to trust leadership. Transparency and follow through on career development could be significantly improved.

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