Centre Daily Times Reviews

2.5

39% would recommend to a friend

(9 total reviews)

Susan Leath

19% approve of CEO

13% positive business outlook

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9 reviews

1.0

2 Aug 2014

Anti-progress form of media

Anonymous

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Pros

Great place to gain some outdated media skills to start a business or go elsewhere. You'll learn exactly how not to work within a company and interact with employees and coworkers.

Cons

Print media is even more outdated than AOL IM. The pay is low and the corporate climate is cold at best. Bullying is used by management to "get results" for an outdated business model. Although I've said that one can gain valuable "skills" via the CDT, I wouldn't look to this place as a great stepping stone and it's likely you will leave on a sour note (everyone does).

2.0

29 July 2013

Mismanaged, declining revenue and readership

Anonymous employee

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Pros

Great place to gain experience and learn new skills to take elsewhere, particularly since the newspaper staff has been cut over the past few years.

Cons

Badly managed organization with poor corporate oversight. Print business is on its way out, but digital products and competition are not being aggressively or realistically targeted. The entire organization is stuck in an outmoded and reactionary mentality. "Out of the box" problem solving is actively discouraged. The organization is afraid to take risks, despite rapidly losing revenue and readership with local competition.

3.0

7 Mar 2013

Good for entry level sales, limited on development and growth potential

Advertising account executive

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Business outlook

Pros

Good employee camaraderie, access to reasonable technology, McClatchy Interactive does provide updated training on digital media for Centre Daily Times and all its other properties

Cons

Limited commission potential for sales, reduced skeleton staff makes job harder to accomplish with its overload of assigned tasks, industry is not growing or redeveloping itself fast enough to stay stable in the face of changing media environments

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