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Utter chaos everywhere else. Couldn’t get writers paid. Made less than other people doing more work because they were corporate favorites.

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There aren't any I can think of !

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No content direction, confusion between content quality and web traffic, leaves are very less, No senior editor to help juniors, zero training for freshers

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Too much pressure from management to chase traffic, not enough thorough editing or subediting, compromising journalists' ability to work on the important stories.

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No scope for original content. Focus is only on writing shabby stuff that can generate hits. There's a race on who can get the highest bonus so no one wants to do good journalism. If you are going for a journalistic opportunity, then this is not the place for you.

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Worst job I've had in journalism. Low-morale, click obsessed race to the bottom. Low pay.

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Most staff writers were misled about the organization during a hiring spree in 2017 to 2018. They were guaranteed salary bonuses dependent on the number of unique visitors brought to the website, as well as opportunities to develop a beat and source well-reported articles. In reality, the bonus system, which was promised to elevate base salaries around 40K toward 70K, was wholly dependent on writing click-bait articles or hoping a story went viral on Reddit. The management adopted a "one for us, one for them" mindset, where reporters were told to write one reported story each day and one aggregated, viral story each day. When "clicks" were low, reporters were pulled off their reporting and told to increase the number of aggregated stories written each day. The business model is wholly driven by the number of unique viewers each reporter brings to the site, and your status at the company will rise and fall each month based on that. There is a company-wide spreadsheet that shares how many unique viewers every reporter is bringing to their team each day and month, and reporters are ranked within that document in order to increase competition.

The salary issue: if you accept this job, your salary will vary based on month-to-month traffic, so negotiate a base salary that you can live off. I would be very wary of accepting a job with Newsweek now (2018) because the focus remains aggregation and viral, click-based content—more than any organization I have ever worked for. Editors write outrageous, SEO-stuffed headlines and assign new writers to create a story that matched the headline. In addition, there have been massive layoffs of video journalists and a mass exodus of reporters and editors who quit in 2018.

Bottom line: Reporters at Newsweek can do good work, but you'll be hard-pressed to avoid a story or scandal that could hurt your career long-term. As scandals increase, the organization is getting a bad reputation in the media world.

There are several other reviews on Glassdoor about Newsweek's ownership, and it's worth Googling the company to discover the many scandals it's dodged in the last few months. As a brief background, Newsweek was sold from The Washington Post in 2010, then sold once again in 2013 to the International Business Times, which now owns it. The company is now privately owned by people who are being investigated by the Manhattan DA and who do not have a background in journalism. In February 2018, they fired a reporter and two editors for trying to report on the company's owners.

This company is not the Newsweek you are imagining, and I would really encourage you to look at other opportunities before accepting a job here.

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Although journalists are hired for their wit, drive and ability...it is rarely used. The articles are seriously clickbait and often feature nonsensical scoops that get the company in trouble often. This is all because of poor management who work there for money and not integrity.

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Everything. Especially the leadership team.

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Most unorganized, dysfunctional, and aimless organization I've ever experienced. A complete lack of culture, no on boarding, and a environment full of fear and anxiety.