"Insider" Guide Exposes the Work Culture at NY Times, Disney, Viacom, & Other Top Entertainment Companies.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 1999-- Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work at a media mainstay like The New York Times Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NYT NYT New York Times NYT National Youth Theatre (UK) NYT New York Transit (New York, USA) NYT New York Tribune ), Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ), or Disney (NYSE: DIS). Vault Reports.com (http://www.VaultReports.com), the leading provider of "insider" information on corporate America, has the ticket. VaultReports.com recently released the Vault Reports Career Guide to Media and Entertainment, a 430-pp., first-ever "insider" guide to the leading media and entertainment companies. The reporters at VaultReports.com spent over a year interviewing thousands of employees to find out what really goes on behind the scenes at media powerhouses like Infoseek (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SEEK), Universal Studios [a part of Seagrams (NYSE: VO)] and The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO WPO Women Presidents' Organization (New York, NY) WPO World Packaging Organization WPO World Powerlifting Organization WPO Werkplek Onderzoek (Netherlands) ). The book is stocked with revealing quotes from employees, such as: -- Viacom (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange : VIAB) - "Many people here have green hair and ripped jeans. As a matter of fact, in some departments it is encouraged to ensure a creative atmosphere."..... -- Chancellor Media (NASDAQ: AMFM AMFM Association of Marriage and Family Ministries AMFM Automated Mapping Facilities Management AMFM Association des Modélistes Ferroviaires de Montréal (French: Montreal Railroad Modelers Association) ) - "Chancellor is a place where employees don't just get jobs, but build careers."..... -- McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) - "The corporate culture is somewhat stodgy, but likes to think of itself as cutting edge."..... -- Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) - "Dow Jones is not a big name; it's `the' big name."..... -- CBS (NYSE: CBS) - "You would make more money at the Diamond Shamrock pumping gas."..... -- Gannet gannet: see booby. gannet Any of three oceanic bird species (family Sulidae) closely related to the booby. Gannets are found in the North Atlantic, where they are the largest seabirds, and in temperate waters around Africa, Australia, and New (NYSE: GCI) - "If you can't produce quality work under the gun, stay away from this place." -- Knight Ridder (NYSE: KRI) - "When I was a small child my parents dropped me on my head and ever since, I have wanted to stay up all night and sleep until noon. So I'm in the right business." The Vault Reports Guide to the Media & Entertainment can be ordered by visiting http://www.vaultreports.com/links/entertainment or calling 1-888-562-VAULT. It is also available in major bookstores. To find out what employees at major entertainment companies are saying about their companies, visit the VaultReports.com's Electronic WaterCooler(tm) message boards at http://www.vaultreports.com/vstore/messageintro.cfm About VaultReports.com Last month,VaultReports.com was one of only two career web sites honored by Yahoo Internet Life as "Best of the Best Sites for 1998." Based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , VaultReports.com publishes "insider" guides on over 1,500 companies and 50 industries. Vault also provides a proprietary service called VaultMatch (http://www.vaultreports.com/links/vaultmatch), a free online recruiting tool that matches young, professional job seekers with corporate employers and headhunters. Augmenting VaultMatch(tm) is Vault's Employee Message Boards (http://www.vaultreports.com/vstore/messageintro.cfm), a newly-introduced network of message boards where people can gossip about the work life at their companies. VaultReports.com was founded in 1996 by Samer Hamadeh, H.S. Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman, recent graduates of Stanford and Wharton. |
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