your job as a "reporter" consists of rewriting corporate press releases, day in day out, boring and tedious. sometimes corporates bury information and you have to guess what they meant or else you will cause ire of your editor
the job at MT Newswires has a sweatshop feel as you are expected to be constantly producing copy, without a break. this company is an ultimate content treadmill and I would not be surprised to find out that they have a special algorithm that watches reporters’ keystrokes. It’s hard to imagine how people work hours-long shifts producing the required amount of copy without a burnout
they are too cheap to provide you with a work email address so your personal Inbox is flooded daily with analyst ratings, press releases and other company information
the job is without benefits, no vacation or anything else, even if you work 8 hours a day, so technically fulltime
this company has truly mastered the outsourcing concept as most writers are hired in the Middle East or select Asian countries such as the Philippines where it does not have to offer employees any benefits