Pros
There are none. The paycheck isn’t worth it and while some people, myself included, make a decent wage, most people are vastly underpaid by industry standards.
Cons
I’m a seasoned journalist with over a decade in this industry. I’ve worked much longer hours and covered tougher beats than I did at Newsweek, but this job broke me. It’s not just the poor management — the poorest I’ve ever witnessed by far — it’s the utter disregard for any of their employees. They change their minds every time the wind changes and that can mean your whole job description changes, or your whole team gets laid off. If you have an opinion about anything, don’t share it or you’ll find yourself on Dayan Candappa’s bad side. He’s the real man in charge here — not Nancy Cooper, the Editor-in-Chief. Not that she’s any better. They push the kind of irresponsible journalism you’d expect from Fox News, but they do it under a legacy name that once meant something, and they do it while pretending they practice objective, responsible journalism. If you won’t play ball, they’ll gaslight you. Every story you pitch or publish will be labeled a dud even if it’s the kind of story that any other major outlet would run with (I know because I’ve worked at many of them). If you’re a journalist who does what you do because it’s a public service, because it matters, don’t work here. If you have any sort of moral or ethical codes that guide your reporting, don’t work here. It will break your spirit.
