Inside the BBC and CNN: Managing Media Organisations

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Routledge, 12 лист. 2012 р. - 256 стор.
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 face increasing pressures of criticism focussed on the struggle for ratings and the perceived "dumbing down" of programming.
Drawing on intensive research carried out among senior managers in both organisations, Lucy Küng-Shankleman's study explores the beliefs and attitudes that shape management priorities and broadcasting policy. More controversially, it examines how each organisation's distinct cultural beliefs - about broadcasting's fundamental purpose, about the nature of competition, and about the relationship between competition and quality - have laid the foundations for their current and past success, but could now threaten to limit their ability to respond to the unprecedented changes underway in the world's media landscape.
 

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Introduction
1
Chapter 1 What is organisation culture?
6
Broadcastings changing environmental context
23
The changing nature of the broadcasting activity
45
The BBC and its unique place in the UKs broadcasting ecology
67
Ted Turner and the beginnings of CNN
77
The BBC as a business
85
CNNs business model
109
CNNs culture in its own words
150
New strategic directions versus old cultural values at the BBC
165
Cultures impact on performance process and strategic options at CNN
187
Chapter 12 A special case? Why media organisations need managing differently
200
Appendix
223
Notes
227
Bibliography
233
Index
239

The BBCs culture in its own words
131

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Lucy Küng is Project Manager at the Institute for Communications and Media at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.

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