While the newsroom is dealing with one of the biggest stories in the station’s history, they will be doing it without a News Director.

WIVB in Buffalo, which has been leading the way in covering the mass shooting at a supermarket that left 10 people dead has fired their News Director.

After 5 years at the station Lisa Polizzi has been ousted as the News Director at the Nexstar station.

Word is that Polizzi was told to pack up after a number of complaints to HR. Word is the station and Nexstar started talking to employees that many described the work environment as “toxic.”

Polizza jumped over to WIVB from Scripps-owned WKBW, where she was also the News Director.

The fact that the station fired her in the midst of covering a major story and during the May ratings, shows that things must have really been bad inside WIVB.