Just OK - Anonymous employee NPR Employee Review

3.0
Jan 11, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

It looks good on your resume. That's a given. But cutbacks to the news industry in general mean that good jobs are few and far between. Promotion will require talent, skill, and hard work-- but also luck and timing.

Cons

If you're young enough that money doesn't matter and you can move around to just about any rural backwater you're needed, you might be able to hang on long enough to make it in a bigger market. All of this assumes that you're talented enough to do so, of course.

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5.0
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Pros

I was fully remote, learned so much from a great group of peers, the union is strong and active, pay was fair

Cons

The federal funding saga put a damper on morale, but that was pretty outside of the scope of what my team/manager could control.

4.0
Jun 1, 2026
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Pros

tiny desks happen at work

Cons

soulless and corporate, management is all-powerful, benefits are slowly disappearing, few career prospects unless you fit a certain "profile"

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