In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many local TV newsrooms decided to have employees work from home (WFH) or from the field rather than from the newsroom. From a review of research on telework and WFH, we identified possible impacts of WFH on worker effectiveness, conceptualized as including output, individual growth and well-being, and group viability. From interviews with news directors and journalists and observation of remote work, we found that WFH news workers could successfully create a newscast, albeit with some concerns about story quality. However, WFH did not seem to satisfy workers individually or as a group. Lifting restrictions on gatherings might mitigate some of the experienced problems, but we expect to see continued challenges to news worker informal learning.