While a VP at Spectrum a few months earlier, Gruber was reportedly dismissive of sexual harassment claims levied by a NY1 female senior producer against a male executive producer at the channel. Employees at the news channel were surprised by her appointment in December 2020 because Gruber had a history of insensitivity toward staffers in a previous position. The hiring of Audrey Gruber as the VP of news and, later, assistant GM of News 12, did not improve matters in New Jersey. Colleagues of the departed employees, who had worked with them for years, knew their decisions to quit were not prompted by a lack of motivation or disenchantment with the industry - it was the unsustainable working conditions. Sources say they believe Natz used the meeting to control the narrative and divert blame for the resignations away from himself and his management style. The staffers were quitting, according to Natz, because they had come to recognize how difficult the news business is and did not think they could handle the grind any longer. He attributed the employees’ choices to leave the channel to individual re-examinations of their lives and priorities, inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic. They say local stories have been deprioritized in favor of sponsored content and generic, general interest segments produced for consumption across all seven News 12 markets in the Tri-State area.ĭuring a recent News 12 New Jersey editorial meeting, which took place on Zoom as the personnel exits multiplied, Natz joined the discussion to offer an explanation for the shakeup. Worst of all, these sources say, top-down decrees have compromised the news team’s ability to best serve the community it has been dedicated to since the cable news channel debuted in 1996.
And micromanaging has rendered employees uninspired, disillusioned and afraid to make independent decisions.
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They exhibited a lack of compassion when workers communicated personal and professional needs during the global pandemic and in individually challenging moments. Leadership has been insincere, dishonest and condescending toward staffers, sources tell TVNewsCheck. According to three sources close to the situation, who spoke under conditions of anonymity in part because they fear retribution from Altice, the cable news channel’s owner, recent and pending departures of News 12 New Jersey’s news director, assistant news director, two executive producers and a senior producer came down to charges of a toxic work environment cultivated by upper management for the past two years.
Mass resignations have rocked the editorial staff at News 12 New Jersey.
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