Pros
Like any small paper, this paper allows young writers the opportunity to mold their craft. Although, a young journalist could find way better options in terms of leadership.
Cons
The management at this place is awful. I find it embarrassing that someone in management felt it necessary to write a few fake reviews in order to save face on this website. This can be seen by the slew of positive reviews that all happened to show up on the same day. Things like that only highlight the way things are run at this company. Expect to be publicly and passive aggressively ridiculed via mass email at least a handful of times in your first year at the paper. This will continue in years to come, however most young journalist choose to leave here before or at their one-year mark. The editor-in-chief has created a poisonous work environment where employees are either too paranoid of public humiliation or too disgruntled by passive aggressive behavior to do their jobs well. I have never worked at a place where so many talented people love their career but hate their job. Editors are constantly undermined by the editor-in-chief and have virtually no say in how their section is run. Reporters are told to write stories in a way that will please the editor-in-chief instead of being allowed much creative freedom in their work. Morale is at an all-time low for several other reasons, as well. Mileage reimbursement was cut to 27 cents per mile earlier in the year. I was told that one editor even pulled out a calculator in order to determine if it would be cheaper to have a reporter drive through the night only to return the next morning rather than have that reporter find a hotel. HR is a whole different mess. It is impossible to reach anyone if problems arise. Multiple emails go unanswered, and the only real way to get anything done is through constant face-to-face persistence. Confidentiality is spit at. In conclusion, I would not recommend this job to anyone talented enough to find something somewhere else.