MediaNews Group reviews

Upper management only cares about the money and forgets that employees are first and foremost people with families and lives outside of work. You’ll be checking your work email on your day off. You’ll cover for coworkers and not have coverage when you need it. You’ll never get a raise. You’ll be rewarded for good work with more work. You’ll be expected to do someone else’s job on top of your own. You’ll work most holidays without extra pay. They’ll layoff by seniority rather than talent so they’ll kick out the competent employees and keep the incompetent ones around simply because they were hired 6 months earlier.

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.