A child could run this 'company' better - Journalist Babylon Radio Employee Review

1.0
25 Nov 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Get to meet some lovely people

Cons

There are so many cons to this place. The 'boss' Dearan is obnoxious and so full of his own self-importance it is difficult to deal with most of the time. Literally, no one is paid so it's run by all interns. This is less of a company and more of a pet project where you are harassed at all hours to promote the website. The main focus is views so that it can draw sponsorships. Dearen has no issue giving out about others and feels like if he doesn't agree with your point of view then it's the wrong point of view. There was one assessment done in my time there and after getting feedback from all of us that he didn't like he pretty much threw a tantrum. When you get high views on an article, the only question asked is ‘how did you do that?’ no other acknowledgment. The office is his apartment and during lockdown still had people working there which of course go against the restrictions. There have been many people who felt bullied and harassed in this job and I can see why as it is toxic. If there are any changes made, you will most likely not be told about it until you try to do it the old way and just get an image sent to you with no context, expecting you to suddenly realise what the issue is. Overall would not recommend this to my enemy. Stay away from here, it is just not worth it.

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5.0
3 Mar 2021
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Pros

-Flexible with time zones -Creative team of journalists -Ability to self-publish -Opportunity to manage a team, meet with journalists, flesh out pitches, and schedule articles -Overseas connections I found Babylon to be an interesting company to work for; I loved being head editor of a team of journalists from all over the world. Not to mention, it was a plus to be creating content that I wanted to write, but still could somehow bring back to the company's mission.

Cons

-Everything is remote due to the pandemic, so it's harder to communicate with new journalists and work with the other branches -Virtually no training (but I learned as I went) -Only editor for a while (and within a different time zone), so sometimes I felt a bit of pressure There weren't any grand cons to working here. I just figured that they could do better in training journalists and not just doing so by sending them YouTube videos or long documents to read. I think they need to dedicate one day a week for training of that week's new journalists, and go through every program (Trello, Google Drive, WordPress, Jetpack). I also would have liked a check-in on my progress every week, as well as maybe a few reviews here and there to let me know if I was on track. Also, I think they should be hiring 2-3 editors at a time because sometimes I couldn't manage to edit articles on my own. But, other than those points, I found the organization to be exceptionally stand alone and running on lots of creative ideas.

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3.0
16 Aug 2024
Recommend
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Pros

It is a Remote position for learning.

Cons

It was unpaid and not too well organized.

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