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Media Organization and Production

First Edition
Edited by:
  • Simon Cottle - Cardiff University, UK, Cardiff School of Journalism, UK


April 2003 | 204 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Drawing on the work of international contributors Media Organization and Production examines a wide range of global-local media organizations and the production of different mediums and genres. Following the editor's introduction which sets out the principal differences of approach and defining debates, chapters address: transnational and national, commercial and public service corporations; international film and TV co-productions; children's television news production, the historical development of 'liveness' on radio, and music journalism; the politics and organizational forms of alternative media production including radical newspapers, video and the internet; and the changing 'production ecology' of natural history television.

These topics are examined through a variety of theoretical and conceptual frameworks that help to illuminate how cultural production often involves a complex articulation of differing influences and constraints, both material and discursive, intended and unintended, structurally determined and culturally mediated.Together the chapters in this book help to recover this complexity and thereby help us to better understand the nature and output of today's media.

 
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Simon Cottle
Media Organization and Production
Mapping the Field

 
 
PART TWO: GLOBAL CORPORATIONS, LOCAL ALTERNATIVES
Robert W McChesney
Corporate Media, Global Capitalism
Chris Atton
Organization and Production in Alternative Media
 
PART THREE: CORPORATE CHANGE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES
Timothy Marjoribanks
Strategizing Technological Innovation
The Case of News Corporation

 
Lucy K[um]ung-Shankleman
Organizational Culture inside the BBC and CNN
 
PART FOUR: PRODUCERS PRACTICES AND THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURAL FORMS
Paddy Scannell
The Brains Trust
An Historical Study of the Management of Liveness on Radio

 
Eamonn Forde
Journalists With a Difference
Producing Music Journalism

 
Julian Matthews
Cultures of Production
The Making of Children's News

 
 
PART FIVE: CHANGING INTERNATIONAL GENRES AND PRODUCTION ECOLOGIES
Doris Baltruschat
International TV and Film Co-Production
A Canadian Case Study

 
Simon Cottle
Producing Nature(s)
The Changing Production Ecology of Natural History TV

 

This is a very helpful general read for music and media students.

Ms Paula Hearsum
School of Arts and Media, Brighton University
March 18, 2024

Really useful for Alevel and BTEC Media as both need to cover the role of the institution.

Miss Emma Orgar
Media, Capital City Academy
January 27, 2015

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