My mental health was at an all time low working here - General Staff Member WHDH Employee Review

Learning a lot about the broadcast industry

5 days a week in office

Top 10 market, and well-known station that will help advance your broadcast career.

-If you take a job at WHDH, you are not entering a newsroom. You are entering a sweatshop run by toxic, micro-managing leaders who are fundamentally incapable and unwilling to treat their employees with even a modicum of respect.
 -Management is not open to any story ideas unless they involve surveillance video. You will not be enterprising or have any ownership of your reporting. You will be assigned whatever the producers decide will make for the flashiest and catchiest promo. The news coverage and editorial decisions are beyond cringeworthy. A pop-up picture book contains more substance than WHDH’s newscasts and reports. And there’s enough cheesy alliteration to make Dr. Seuss throw up. -Get ready for erratic hours and schedules. You will be regularly asked (but first they will try and tell you) to come in early and stay late - all without compensation. Work 13.5 hours a day and think you will be rewarded for helping out? Guess again. The News Director will deny your comp-day because 14 hours is the minimum. There are absolutely no exceptions or considerations for your time. 

-The News Director will try to justify her selfish demands by saying ‘that’s the industry’ or that’s the “7News Way.” The news industry is by nature very difficult with odd hours and a demanding workload. That is why now, more than ever, stations should be treating their employees with respect. The big market and the city may entice you but tread -very- carefully. There are newsrooms out there that will least treat you like a human being. WHDH never will.