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Chief Copy Editor in
Indore
Journalism Department
2.0
Overall Rating
2.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
2.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
2.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
2.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 02 Aug 2018
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No timely payment of salary. Need to take ten rounds of the clerk to get check. Understaffed office, so workload for some gets immense. Very drab, quite, musty office... not to everyone's liking. Readership of paper is low in Indore. Quality of paper and editing is poor...Bosses are incompetent...
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Senior Editor in
Mumbai
Full Time
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Editing (Print / Online / Electronic) Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
1.0
Skill Development
1.0
Company Culture
1.0
Work Satisfaction
1.0
Salary & Benefits
1.0
Job Security
1.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 25 Dec 2023
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The company is pathetic to work. The owners have no vision and knowledge about journalism at all. They just want to make people happy they know and look for potential ads which don't come mostly but the writers are harassed to attend their events and write multiple stories. They have unrealistic expectations of becoming bigger than TOI but want to do nothing about it. To start with hire experienced people but they don't pay so no one wants to work here. They fire people without any back up so the existing employee ends up doing four people's job. At each department they are short staffed. You won't get any help and every time you go on leave you will have a fear of losing your job. They will ensure your weekoffs are cancelled because they will fix appointments on that day when you have off. You can't be honest so I would like to advise you incase you join, always lie. Truth has no space and you will be targetted.
Each position in the office is underqualified including the editors, reporters, and people on the desk. You will come across good people but won't feel like respecting them, for working at FPJ itself is demeaning by all means. The owners who are much younger to senior journalists (in one or two cases) will treat you like trash. So much of egos and they will really suck your blood. There's no work life balance unless you are completely unambitious and don't care for anything. They pay so less and there are increments in hundred rupees. They will demand a lot but contribute none.
Leadership is bad. They are not leaders, not businessmen but blood sucking machines. They will harrass you, exhaust you and you will always have job insecurity. You will always have unconscious fear of bumping into the management because then you are stopping there and answering to 'whats happening'. They don't even read their own newspaper. Half the time they don't know if the stories appeared or not. Basically everything is their owned including the print and office space so there's not expense. No matter how hard you work, not a single word of appropriation comes from anyone. Ultimately you realise you are working for someone else's ambition and tou quit, broken, shattered, and energyless.
Once you quit you need a detox and a therapy. It's that bad.
If you haven't got through at FPJ, you are blessed, but if you have, you will have really tough time. People are good here, but everyone is scared of the management and it's not their fault. Some people there really need job but once the management knows, they are fired.
Very bad. Sit home but don't choose FPJ. There's a reason why people don't join them. As for starters join them, you don't need much writing skills and aptitude of a journalists, which basically are the prerequisites of the job but that's the team head's added job to train the raw people in the same salary. As a newcomer you will learn as a trainee but will be paid so not a bad idea.
FPJ is good for trainees but not for experienced and hardworking people. Don't be too enthusiastic, your passion will be used.
Be a freelancer to them for print. Don't opt for freelancing for online. There's no Sunday off. Six days a week is a torture on your body and mind is definitely s**** working with fools....Read More
Dislikes
Everything
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Saturday
(Flexible Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
Special Correspondent in
Mumbai
Full Time
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Editorial Department
4.0
posted on 20 Dec 2023
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News Editor in
Mumbai
Full Time
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Editing (Print / Online / Electronic) Department
5.0
posted on 28 Feb 2024
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Crime Reporter in
Bhopal
Full Time
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Editing (Print / Online / Electronic) Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
2.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
2.0
Job Security
5.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 13 Aug 2023
Likes
Much room for learning
Dislikes
Late and disappointing appraisals.
Work Details
Work timings: Strict Timings
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
Senior Digital Content News Producer in
Mumbai
Full Time
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Editing (Print / Online / Electronic) Department
1.0
Overall Rating
1.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
1.0
Skill Development
1.0
Company Culture
1.0
Work Satisfaction
1.0
Salary & Benefits
1.0
Job Security
1.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 23 Jul 2024
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There’s no redeeming quality to The Free Press Journal. Absolutely nada.
Dislikes
Everything. From the management to the HR to the work culture, everything is horrid. Once you join this company, the management, HR & the editor will consider you as their slave. There is zero job security, people have been fired without notice at the end of their shift & no reason given. They will fire anyone & everyone they don’t like, even if they have completed only 1 month at the company. All in all, if you like your mental peace, run away from this godforsaken company....Read More
Work Details
Work timings: Strict Timings
Media Manager in
Mumbai
Contractual
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Advertising & Creative Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Promotions/Appraisal
2.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
5.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
4.0
Job Security
3.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 06 Apr 2024
Likes
All Good Free Culture
Dislikes
Contractual Hiring I personally dislike
Work Details
Work days: Monday to Saturday
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
Reporter Sub Editor in
Nariman Point
Full Time
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Journalism Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
1.0
Promotions/Appraisal
1.0
Skill Development
1.0
Company Culture
1.0
Work Satisfaction
2.0
Salary & Benefits
1.0
Job Security
3.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 24 Nov 2021
Likes
The new management, especially run by someone claiming to be His Royal Highness from Kuwait, has ruined the workplace. I was working for years in this company. Never have I seen someone exploiting employees in such a way and throwing them out without notice periods despite having contracts. The editors in print are more approachable and kind.
Dislikes
Impulsive decisions. They don't know how to manage employees. Neither do they know how to play with their budget. They will hire people with big company names on their CVs, pay them heavy, and fire them when they get nothing in return. Good employees are not treasured and are made to suffer.
Work Details
Rotational shift. Can't expect work-life balance if you are in journalism.
Work days: Rotational Shift
(Strict Timings)
Work related travel:This is a desk job.
Circulation Executive in
Mumbai
Marketing Department
5.0
Overall Rating
5.0
Category Ratings
5.0
Promotions/Appraisal
5.0
Skill Development
5.0
Company Culture
5.0
Work Satisfaction
5.0
Salary & Benefits
5.0
Job Security
5.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 29 Jun 2022
Likes
Good work in media information
Dislikes
Do not any reason for dislike
Work Details
Work timings: Strict Timings
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within Country.
Political Editor in
Mumbai
Editing (Print / Online / Electronic) Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
3.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
1.0
Job Security
2.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 16 May 2020
Likes
Freedom of writing and working. Learning from Editor Dhawan Sir
Dislikes
Poor support system for journalist. HR SYSTEM IS POOR. OWNERS are only run for Advertisements and not for content
Work Details
To cover Politics, Government Affairs as Political Editor
Work days: Monday to Saturday
(Flexible Timings)
Intern Reporter in
Mumbai
Reporting Department
3.0
Overall Rating
3.0
Category Ratings
2.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
1.0
Company Culture
2.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
2.0
Job Security
3.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 03 Aug 2020
Likes
Byline articles in the newspaper only if your story is good.
Dislikes
Lot of politics in the office and lot of partiality. The reporter's treat interns like fools they are arrogant too. They don't know to respect any interns no professionalism in the office no one is helpful. They editors think interns know everything. No stipend for interns all are paid less. Non supportive people in the office. Theythink interns know everything, no one learns and come from mom's stomach....Read More
Work Details
Work timings: Flexible Timings
Work related travel: This job involves
Travel Within City.
Content Writer/ Journalist in
Mumbai
Journalism Department
4.0
Overall Rating
4.0
Category Ratings
3.0
Promotions/Appraisal
4.0
Skill Development
3.0
Company Culture
3.0
Work Satisfaction
3.0
Salary & Benefits
2.0
Job Security
4.0
Work-Life Balance
posted on 03 Apr 2019
Likes
It was really a learning experience for me. I used to handle Sports beat and it was a great learning with people over there. They were fun loving, cooperative and helpful.
Dislikes
I didn't likes how it is from railway station. As I used to travel daily through local train, it was really time consuming for me.
Work Details
It was great working there. Teammates are full fun, love.
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