Lee Enterprises reviews

When I started working for Lee in the mid 80s, the publisher treated all employees like family. That slowly went by the wayside as publishers in that mindset were replaced by corporate idiots who only cared about their own rise up the corporate ladder. Get a raise at this company (not that there are any anymore) and you'll quickly become a liability instead of an asset and risk being let go in a "workplace reduction." The company excels at mediocrity for just that reason.

Horrible management. Replaced a publisher/Managing Editor with decades of experience with a dumb kid 2 years out of college who completely changed things and merged departments which were running fine just because he had the power to change things and then proceeded to do so to justify his title.. Our department moved our desks and work area three times in less than two years on his capricious whims and all of his strategies eventually failed. He did manage to destroy morale. HR is a joke and the simplest thing like an employment verification for a rental application was a major pain and took too long. Final straw was when Lee decided to go with a Regional Design Center in the midwest and use a cookie cutter approach to the design of their many different newspapers and they outsourced our entire department's jobs with just 3 weeks notice, letting many great people go including folks who had worked at the paper for decades. Many people will be happy when print journalism completely dies off and Lee goes out of business..