TEGNA reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(624 total reviews)
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Mike Steib

25% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

TEGNA has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 624 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The TEGNA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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624 reviews
2.0
Feb 3, 2017

Bad corporate environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Challenging environment, a lot going on. Interesting, changing business.

Cons

Uppermost management beats on corporate people, doesn't care about them. Corporate people don't include others, people hate change. Salaries are low.

1.0
Jan 24, 2017

Smoke and Mirrors

Recommend
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Pros

Everything is fine if you learn to play the part. Tell them what they want to hear. I was there for over three years and I became very close with the sales manager. I made her interests mine. Told her what went on when she was gone. Always kept her informed.

Cons

They claim to have a flexible work schedule for the sales staff but they still micromanage. Sales management also creates a culture of distrust, nervousness, and fear. Office politics dominate. They frequently guard information and treat it as power. They are MIA when needed most, especially in times of crisis, when critical decisions need to be made. Lacking any personal accountability, they blame everyone else when something goes wrong. They are tolerant of employees who do average or subpar work as long as they suck up and try to make the bad boss look good. It’s almost like a game to them, and they toy with people as though they are puppets. They have a very high turnover.

3.0
Jan 13, 2017

Corporate

Recommend
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Pros

There's a sense that most of management actually cares about the employees and doing right by them. Two weeks+2 days vacation. 8 holidays.

Cons

It's corporate so you aren't going to get any benefits working here that you can't get at any other corporate owned newsroom. Working in local news anywhere, your hours are tied to the newscasts and your typically short-staffed, which means hours can go all over the place. Any bad experiences I've had here, can be attributed more to the line of work than to the employer.

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