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
Media Organization and Production - Simon Cottle
Mapping the Field
PART TWO: GLOBAL CORPORATIONS, LOCAL ALTERNATIVES
Corporate Media, Global Capitalism - Robert W McChesney
Organization and Production in Alternative Media - Chris Atton
PART THREE: CORPORATE CHANGE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES
Strategizing Technological Innovation - Timothy Marjoribanks
The Case of News Corporation
Organizational Culture inside the BBC and CNN - Lucy K[um]ung-Shankleman
PART FOUR: PRODUCERS PRACTICES AND THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURAL FORMS
The Brains Trust - Paddy Scannell
An Historical Study of the Management of Liveness on Radio
Journalists With a Difference - Eamonn Forde
Producing Music Journalism
Cultures of Production - Julian Matthews
The Making of Children's News
PART FIVE: CHANGING INTERNATIONAL GENRES AND PRODUCTION ECOLOGIES
International TV and Film Co-Production - Doris Baltruschat
A Canadian Case Study
Producing Nature(s) - Simon Cottle
The Changing Production Ecology of Natural History TV