Surviving Bully Culture: A Career Spent Navigating Workplace Bullying and a Guide for Healing

Andrew Regal’s Surviving Bully Culture approaches workplace abuse from 2 angles: memoir and warning. Drawing on decades in television news and media, Regal describes a career shaped by humiliation, intimidation, exclusion, and the kind of mistreatment that can leave damage long after the job ends. The book’s central argument is clear. Workplace bullying is not office tension or a clash of personalities. It is an abuse of power, and its effects can be severe.

Regal writes with anger, pain, and urgency, but also with the authority of someone who has spent years trying to understand what happened to him. He describes the psychological toll in direct terms: shame, nausea, sleeplessness, despair, even thoughts of suicide. He rejects the soft corporate language that turns abuse into “miscommunication” or “conflict.” That refusal matters. Regal wants readers to name bullying for what it is and see how often institutions protect the people who cause the harm.

Newsrooms run on pressure, ego, and competition, so Regal’s account of bullying inside those spaces carries extra weight. His background at various media outlets gives the book a clear professional world, one where ambition and insecurity sit close together. The book suggests that high-performance environments often reward the people doing the most damage.

Surviving Bully Culture is at its best when Regal stays focused on lived experience and recovery. The memoir sections give the book emotional weight. The healing framework helps widen its reach. Regal wants the book to do more than prove workplace bullying exists. He wants it to help readers survive what comes after.

Some readers may find the book repetitive, especially when the book leans hard into injury and indictment. Others may want more distance or nuance. But Regal is not trying to balance the record. He is trying to break the silence around a form of abuse many workplaces still minimize.

Surviving Bully Culture shows how lasting the damage from workplace bullying can be, and how hard it is to heal when institutions refuse to name what happened.