Research on organizational change shows that its critically important for leaders to reflect on exactly what they reward and what they punish. Employees are closely attuned not only to what you SAY about change, about the future of news and what needs to be done in your newsroom, but also more explicitly what you [...]
I was interested to see a story by Janet Rae-Dupree in the New York Times about how you can change your habits and develop new skills hover on the most emailed list for quite some time - I guess this indicates that there is a real self-improvement fever out there somewhere. It also has some [...]
Today the well-known scholar and University of California San Diego professor Michael Schudson came to the Missouri School of Journalism to speak to an eager crowd of what I will fondly call a bunch of nerds, myself included. The room was packed with plenty of folks sprawled out on the floor and the PhD-student list-serv [...]
I hope to periodically use this blog to summarize recent academic research relevant to managing change in the newsroom. Today I picked up one of the Newspaper Research Journals that have been piling up on my desk, untouched, and spent a few minutes quickly reading through a study that found that one-third of copy [...]
There is nothing so practical as a good theory.
I’ve long found the above statement pretty dubious. Yes, I’ve spent years, upon years, upon years, in school, prostrate to the higher mind, and all that, and now I depend on the Ivory Tower for a living. However, I can’t deny I’ve always had very [...]
Hopefully I’ll be able to get back to posting a bit more frequently now that an extremely busy week has ended. Here’s a final installment from the notes I prepared for a meeting in DC on managing change in the newsroom last March. Again, holler if you want more complete references.
Modern management [...]
Whew, it was a long and fun weekend in which I got to see two friends get married, and now I, like nerdy journalism academics everywhere, am scrambling to get it together for the April 1 deadline for submitting papers to the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference. This yearly ritual that [...]
Reporter Steve Lahor deals a blow to technological determinism and speaks to the importance of managing change well in an interesting, and, I think, hopeful article in the New York Times today.
Pointing to mainframe computers and radio as examples of “survival technologies” that have lasted long past their predicted demise, Lahor writes:
“It is the business [...]
…And not just because we want them to. Here’s some stuff I put together for a meeting last week in Washington, DC. It’s oriented a bit toward newsroom managers. According to research on newsroom change:
One of the most consistent findings across studies is that journalists often resist, either directly or passively, changes they perceive [...]
