1st Edition
Inside the BBC and CNN Managing Media Organisations
By Lucy Küng-Shankleman
Copyright 2000
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Inside the BBC and CNN provides a unique insight into two of the world's best-known media organisations, during a period of great change and new challenges. The BBC and CNN have very different histories, remits and identities, but both must now compete to provide news in a media environment being reshaped by increasing competition, globalisation, digitisation and convergence. In addition they... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 What is organisation culture?; Chapter 2; Chapter 3 The mass paradigm fragments; Chapter 4 ‘Serving the nation’; Chapter 5 The ‘Mouth of the South’ and his ‘Chicken Noodle Network’; Chapter 6 Continuous revolution; Chapter 7 Reinventing the news; Chapter 8 ‘Part of the British way of life’; Chapter 9 ‘Underdogs and outsiders’; Chapter 10 Reithianism versus Birtism; Chapter 11 Adrenaline; Chapter 12 A special case?;
Biography
Lucy Küng is Project Manager at the Institute for Communications and Media at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.
'This is an exceptionally clear and compact book about the world of media management ... an insightful read, strongly recommended to media managers and policymakers, and anyone working in an organization outside or only loosely connected with the media's unique "cultural loop."' - Telecommunications Policy
