MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Decision-Making, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Touchstone Pictures
Lecture 3:
Organizational Analysis
Orienting Questions
• Why does a media organization produce the kind of content it does?
o What conventions are followed?
o What patterns can be found?
• Ho is the es ade?
o By what standards?
o To what ends?
o In whose interest?
What makes an Organization?
Structure ➔Form
Process ➔ Substance
Organization = Structure + Process
- a system of ordered relationships and coordinated activities directed toward specific goals
o Structure – form
Structure
• Hierarchy
o Authority within an organization
o Decision making
o Copoate ultue
• Differentiation and specialization
o Units, departments, positions, each with special duties
▪ Usually require specialized training/education
• Formalization
o Conformity to organizational conventions
Process
• Structure – form
• Process – substance
o Process = behaviours
o Substance = how such behaviours and actions manifest
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▪ Delimiters
Conventions and Professionalization
- Norms – tend to be practical
- Guidelines
- Expectations
Norms that govern the technical and creative choices made by workers in the execution of their duties, art, or
craft.
1. Motivated
2. Shared
3. Naturalized
4. Resilient – they become traditions eventually
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5. Directive
News Gathering Conventions
Nesothiess – locating the news
Newsworthiness
- the es hole ad the es hole
o Nes hole = eed to podue es ee da at the sae tie
o Nes hole = aout of tie allotted to es epotig eah da
Locating the News:
Journalistic Beats
• Whee ae esoth stoies epeted to ou?
o Courthouses and police stations
o Areas/regions in known conflict, high-crime areas
o Political campaigns or statements
o Hospitals or emergency facilities
News-gathering conventions dictate what is shown and what is not shown by the news.
News Sourcing:
Sinclair Broadcasting Group
- largest TV station in US
News Agencies
Organizations that create and sell news stories to news providers
Two largest news agencies (English):
• Reuters – Corporate (for-profit)
• Associated Press (AP) – Co-op (non-profit)
News Reporting Conventions
Codes of Ojetiit
Informational bias
Objectivity:
Informational bias
Ifoatioal ias = ..ho a sto is stutued ad told
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