Lucy Küng is Project Manager at the Institute for Communications and Media at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.
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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Unique study of world's two best-known media organisations at a time of great change
Draws on interviews with top execs in both organisations
Addresses ever-topical issues of public service broadcasting, the struggle between ratings and quality programming, the challenge posed by new digital media
Author is former Publisher of Random House Business Books
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?;
Inside the BBC and CNN provides an inside account of the BBC and CNN - two of the world's best-known media organisations, during a period of great change and new challenges.
'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
Inside the BBC and CNN provides an inside account of the BBC and CNN - two of the world's best-known media organisations, during a period of great change and new challenges.
Über den Autor
Lucy Küng is Project Manager at the Institute for Communications and Media at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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?;
Klappentext
"Inside the BBC and CNN" provides a unique insight into two of the world's best-known media organizations, during a period of great change and new challenges. Drawing on intensive research carried out among senior managers in both organizations, the study explores the beliefs and attitudes that shape management priorities and broadcasting policy. It also examines how each organization'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 may now threaten to limit their ability to respond to the unprecedented changes underway in the world's media landscape.
