Newsweek Reviews

I worked here only for a while, but in just a short time, I saw enough. There is no culture. Employees too afraid to talk to higher management. You could literally hear a pin drop in the office! I wasn’t there long enough to really understand why staff were so anxious, but apparently they have gone through a lot of changes in the past years. So much controversy, over-controlling nature of management and many people were made redundant. This company is financially doing VERY VERY bad! And is going to be declared bankrupt soon. They don’t have enough to pay their creditors- and higher managements way of dealing with this is to ignore suppliers emails/ delay it so much that eventually they get too tired and give up. That is how it has been functioning for a while. If it continues, their debt will continue to pile up in millions. Therefore, staff usually aren’t paid on timely manner due to lack of finance, and no procedures from HR team. No one listens to anyone. The higher managements only concern is to play politics and games so that they look good in front of their CEO. The finance and HR team are a big joke, with senior members playing dirty games with one another. Other than that, they belittle their staff, treat them like slaves, have no moral values whatsoever. It’s a ticking bomb machine. So to all members of staff, I would say make an exit now.

- Management would rather fire people than handle unhappy staff, or answer questions about issues with management. My entire team were suffering from burnout and mental health issues and the company completely ignored this despite being well aware. There is not a single effort made to ensure staff wellbeing. - I've been a journalist for 9 years and worked at some fairly badly managed publications, but what I saw here was truly shocking. - Please do your research on senior gatekeepers at Newsweek, specifically Dev Pragad and Dayan Candappa - you'll find sexual harassment, fraud, and cults. - If you became a journalist to help people or try and make a difference, please, please don’t work here, it is an utter disappointment. - Newsweek is not what it once was, please don’t be fooled by its previous reputation. The content is trash, and is similar to the Daily Mail or The Sun. - You'll be asked to pitch, but they won't be accepted. They only care about shock articles or stories about viral pet videos, so you’ll be mainly be writing about cats and dogs, people with incurable diseases, people who are overweight, eating disorders, or age gap relationships – and the focus is on clicks and quantity over quality, and you will be expected to exploit vulnerable people for interviews. - Holiday is very rarely approved, and you have to jump through hoops to even request it. The editorial operations manager seems incapable of doing even basic admin and will simply make things up, and the one-man HR department is also useless. - There is zero career progression, and you will be treated with aggression or simply ignored if you try and bring it up. The only opportunity to progress is to become a ‘senior’ but this brings no further responsibility or pay, and the opportunity simply doesn’t exist. - The weekly targets are not achievable - 18 articles per week - and you will be expected to work unpaid overtime otherwise your targets will suffer, and you will be penalised. - Managers are completely disorganised and make a lot of mistakes, and if you say anything they will fire you. Micromanaging is also the daily norm. I urge you not to work for here.