Inside the BBC and CNN: Managing Media Organisations - Hardcover

Küng-Shankleman, Lucy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415213215 ISBN 13: 9780415213219

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

'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

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415213215
• ISBN 13: 9780415213219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256