The newsroom is dangerously short-staffed and although the pandemic did shift the way a newsroom functions, WKTV had always been running on fumes even before the pandemic according to staff that had been there for 10+ years. “At the start of my term, WKTV had a news director who soon quit due to the hostility of a seasoned anchor and a general manager who was more reactive than proactive. While working for WKTV this person experienced: Multiple people have made multiple complaints to no avail.
HR and corporate knows this is an issue and has done nothing about it. Be prepared to go before a one-woman firing squad should you decide to share your feedback with her. She uses stereotypes to make “informed” decisions and is not open to any sort of feedback.
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Jill Manuel is ignorant when it comes to issues of DEI, how to act professionally and how to treat people with respect. “If you are a BIPOC in the newsroom (which largely excluded the “Originals” team), you will not have an easy time. This person describes the overall newsroom environment as: – Regularly yells at belittles employee to their faces, in meetings and behind their backs to other employees.” – ND will never allow you to complete a sentence in a meeting or just regular conversation. She then proceeded to berate a team of morning producers for not having a plan for how to produce a 3 anchor show. – Approved a new set design for 2 anchors even though the morning broadcast has 3 anchors. – Allows White employees to call BIPOC employees “tolken hires,” even when employees tell her it is offensive. – Excluded a Latina reporter candidate from hiring because the reporter “did not look Latina and if we’re going to hire Latinas we need to get credit.” – Subjected Black employees (and Black employees only) to quotes from Tyler Perry’s Madea movies after she saw it for the first time. – When auditing content for “diversity,” ND will ask “what’s the Black story for today?”
When told this was offensive, she said she’s a member and it’s okay. – ND has referred to the LGBTQIA+ community as the “alphabet mafia” in multiple meetings. – ND frequently tells assignment editors and reporters during editorial meetings she is “tired of their bullshit pitches.” Yes, this reporter was on the call when she said it. “- In a public critique, ND (Jill Manuel) once said she knew she would no longer get useful information and could clean her cat’s litter box when (reporter) came on tv. Sexual Harassment, Racial Discrimination, Sexual Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment While working for KXTV this person experienced:
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