Local Voice Reviews

Ridiculously high turnover Lack of compassion for employees A very VP-heavy hierarchy Poor management of expectations Obsessive to a fault with "the model" Lack of flexibility for operations in different markets A volatile CEO with a "my way or the highway" attitude Daily references to "drinking the Kool-Aid" A toxic workplace culture

The CEO doesn't know how to run this business. There is no real direction or planning for success, and new products/projects are often launched without a solid plan. LVM hires talented people and quickly burns them out by being overly demanding of their time, not giving a thought to work/life balance and pointing the finger at reporters for stories that "fail" (aka do not get enough page views). Real reporting IS NOT the focus of LVM. If a story doesn't click, it was a failure regardless of the reporting or the importance of the topic. When managers and the "leadership team" are confronted by ground-level employees about their day-to-day struggles and issues, the ground-level employees are met with blame and excuses. The company does not have a real budget for social media, FOIA requests or basic office supplies like cameras that work well. Employees will often find themselves in empty newsrooms because the turnover is so high. Long-lasting employees in a newsroom are those who say longer than a year. The pay, which is a bit higher than competing media in the area, is not worth the drain on your life that working at LVM will be.