In depth look at TMZ and the grubby celebrity gossip world it inhabits, by Anne Helen Petersen, for Buzzfeed (itself hardly a bastion of 'proper' journalism):

“Even before the TV show made the TMZ “morning meeting” famous, the staff would circle around Levin, standing at a white board, and go around the circle with their pitch/tip/idea for a story. Every employee was responsible for one; if someone took your idea before you did, you were screwed; after enough screwups, you were done.”

This, along with the depressing predictable reports of misogyny and sexual harassment, make TMZ sound like a truly awful place to work.