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OverviewThe authors propose that the newspaper industry must begin to view change as more than just something it must react and adjust to. Newspapers and students of newspaper publishing need a comprehensive understanding of change that goes beyond the advice of trade publications, consultants, corporate puffery, executive dogma, employee interests, and local market whims. The new millennium demands a new way of thinking-a model from which to view change. This book offers newspaper change as a process with causes, phases, and cycles. It is concerned not just with the future, but also considers a newspaper's past and contends that the newspaper that understands the role of time in change is the newspaper that succeeds. In this volume, newspapers are examined as unique organizations, but are also placed in the general, larger context of all organizations. This permits the process of organizational change to be analyzed in non-newspaper industries and companies: the nature of change, the change process, rationale for organizational changes, resistance to such changes, and initiation and implementation strategies. Next the book discusses the causes of newspaper change, how newspaper change takes shape, and when it does not work. This discussion sets the stage for three detailed case studies: new technology, product, and people roles as change agents in newspapers. The book concludes with perspective-providing treatises on the impact of change--or the lack of it--on the contemporary newspaper industry and the subsequent impacts of newspaper change on society; future directions of change and of newspaper decision-making processes as they pertain to change; and suggestions for changes in newspaper structures and thought processes. Full Product DetailsAuthor: George Sylvie , Patricia D. WitherspoonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.430kg ISBN: 9780805835885ISBN 10: 0805835881 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 01 November 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: Preface. An Overview of Newspaper Change. Part I: Philosophy. Newspapers as Organizations. The Process of Organizational Change. Newspapers and Change. Part II: The Practice of Change. New Technology at the Dallas Morning News. Product and the Black Press. People at USA Today.Part III: Implications. The Impact of Change on Newspapers--A Contemporary Look. Newspaper Organizations of the Future--Suggestions for Change.Reviews...Sylvie and Witherspoon have launched an important discussion...Time, Change, and the American Newspaper is an exhaustive literature review of what others have said about change and the press. That alone makes it well worth adding to the reference stacks, because it finally puts the literature on newspaper change in one accessible spot...it is destined to become a useful reference. It also breaks ground for thoughtful discourse on the subject of change in journalistic environments. I hope it will be a catalyst for more exploration of a subject that could become a major part of media management scholarship. -Journal of Media Economics The book is well written with clear examples and helpful charts and diagrams....Highly recommended for professional collections and university libraries supporting graduate and research work in journalism and in newspaper management. -CHOICE Author InformationGeorge Sylvie, Patricia D. Witherspoon Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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