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12:00 AM  Apr. 15, 2008
Media Leadership Bibliography
By David Shedden (More articles by this author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

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ONLINE RESOURCES

ASNE: American Society of Newspaper Editors
http://www.asne.org/
ASNE is the nation's oldest and largest newspaper editors group.
(See also: ASNE Publications)

APME: Associated Press Managing Editors
http://www.apme.com/
APME is a group of U.S. and Canadian editors
whose newspapers are members of the Associated Press.

Best Practices: The Art of Leadership in News Organizations
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16166
By Shelby Coffey III, Freedom Forum, 2002.

Frontline Editors Project
http://www.frontlineeditors.org/
Featuring ideas, resources and connections for those who edit, manage and lead from the front lines of today’s newsrooms.

Media Info Center
http://www.mediainfocenter.org/
Presented by the Northwestern University Media Management Center.

Media Management Center
http://www.mediamanagementcenter.org/
The Media Management Center is located at Northwestern University.
(See also: Publication Titles.)

News University (Poynter/Knight Foundation)
http://www.newsu.org/

NAA: Newspaper Association of America
http://www.naa.org/
The NAA focuses on the strategic priorities
that affect the newspaper industry.

The Newspaper Journalists of the 90s
http://www.asne.org/kiosk/
reports/97reports/journalists90s/coverpage.html
This ASNE report about journalists and
their profession was written by Paul S. Voakes.

Poynter's Career Center
(Columns by Colleen Eddy and Joe Grimm)
http://www.poynter.org/subject.asp?id=62

Poynter's Leadership Resources
http://poynter.org/subject.asp?id=14

Poynter's Leadership Tip Sheets
http://poynteronline.org/content/content_view.asp?id=31895
Journalism tips you can use.

Poynter's "SuperVision" column
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=34

Poynter's "Biz Blog" column (Rick Edmonds)
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=123&aid=133814

RTNDA: Radio and Television News Directors Association
http://www.rtnda.org/
RTNDA represents local and network news
executives in broadcast, cable and other electronic media.

Readership Institute
http://www.readership.org/
The Institute is based at the Media Management
Center at Northwestern University.

SNPA: Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
http://www.snpa.org/
SNPA is a regional trade organization
which has served newspapers since 1903.

State of the American Newspaper
http://www.ajr.org/state/menu.html
(1998-2000 American Journalism Review series.)

The State of the News Media
http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org
An annual report on American journalism.

Who Owns What?
http://www.cjr.org/owners/
Columbia Journalism Review resource guide.

Women in Newspaper Newsroom Management: 1949 to 1979
http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/wjmcr/vol01/1-2a.HTM
By Stephen Lacy, Lucinda Davenport, and Carolyn Miller.
Web Journal of Mass Communication Research, March 1998.

BOOKS

Albarran, Alan B.
Management of Electronic Media.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2002.

Argyris, Chris. On Organizational Learning.
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1994.

Benfari, Robert C.
Understanding and Changing Your Management Style.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.

Bennis, Warren. Managing People Is Like Herding Cats.
Provo, UT: Executive Excellence Publishing, 1996.

----. On Becoming a Leader.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1989.

Bennis, Warren, and Burt Nanus.
Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge.

New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Brown, James and Quaal Ward.
Radio-Television-Cable Management.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1998.

Buckingham, Marcus and Curt Coffman.
First, Break All the Rules:
What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Ciancutti, Arky and Thomas L. Steding. Built on Trust.
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 2001.

Clark, Roy Peter and Cole C. Campbell.
The Values and Craft of American Journalism.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.

Cohen, Don and Laurence Prusak. In Good Company:
How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work
.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.

Collins, James C. Good to Great:
Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don't
.
New York: Harper Collins, 2001.

Covington, William G.
Creativity in TV & Cable Managing & Producing.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.

Davis, Foster, and Karen F. Dunlap. The Effective Editor:
How to Lead Your Staff to Better Writing and Better Teamwork.
St. Petersburg, FL: Poynter Institute
and Chicago: Bonus Books, 2000.

Demers, David Pearce. The Menace of
the Corporate Newspaper: Fact or Fiction?

Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1996.

Fink, Conrad C. Strategic Newspaper Management.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.

Fuller, Jack. News Values.
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1996.

Gardner, Howard, et. al. Good Work:
When Excellence and Ethics Meet
.
New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Geisler, Jill. News Leadership at the Head of the Class.
Washington, DC: Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, 2005.

Giles, Robert H. Newsroom Management:
A Guide to Theory and Practice.

Detroit, MI: Media Management Books, 1993.

Goleman, Daniel, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee.
Primal Leadership.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.

Halpern, Belle Linda and Kathy Lubar.
Leadership Presence
.
New York: Gotham books, 2003.

Handy, Charles. Beyond Certainty:
The Changing Worlds of Organizations.

Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.

Heifetz, Ronald A. and Marty Linsky.
Leadership on the Line.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.

Hickman, Craig R. Mind of a Manager, Soul of a Leader.
New York: Wiley, 1992.

Hill, Linda A. Becoming a Manager:
How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership
.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.

Huseman, Richard and Merwyn Hayes.
Give to Get Leadership
.
Newton Center, MA: Equity Press, 2002.

Katzenbach, Jon R. The Wisdom of Teams.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.

Kelleghan, Kevin M. Supervisory Skills for Editors,
News Directors, and Producers
.
Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 2001.

Knudson, Jerry W. In the News:
American Journalists View their Craft
.
Wilmington: SR Books, 2000.

Kotter, John P. Leading Change.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.

Kovach, Bill and Tom Rosenstiel.
The Elements of Journalism.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.

Linder, Ken. Broadcasting Realities.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1999.

Linsky, Marty. The View From the Top.
Poynter Paper: No. 10,
St. Petersburg: Poynter Institute, 1997.

McCauley, Cynthia D., et al. The Center for Creative Leadership
Handbook of Leadership Development
.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998.

McLellan, Michele and Tim Porter.
News, Improved: How America's Newsrooms are Learning to Change.
Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2007.

Mouritsen, Russell H. Case Studies in Media Management.
Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Nanus, Burt. Visionary Leadership:
Creating a Compelling Sense of Direction
for Your Organization.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.

Patterson, Benton Rain, and Coleman E.P. Patterson.
The Editor in Chief: A Practical Management
Guide for Magazine Editors.

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2003.

Pringle, Peter, et al. Electronic Media Management.
Boston: Focal Press, 1999.

Redmond, James and Robert Trager.
Balancing on the Wire: The Art of Managing Media.
Boulder, CO: Coursewise, 1998.

Roberts, Gene, ed. Leaving Readers Behind:
The Age of Corporate Newspapering
.
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001.

Scott, Randall K. Human Resource Management in the Electronic Media.
Westport: Quorum Books, 1998.

Senge, Peter, et al. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook:
Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization.

New York: Currency/Doubleday, 1994.

Serrin, William, ed. The Business of Journalism: Ten Leading
Reporters and Editors on the Perils and the Pitfalls of the Press
.
New York: The New Press, 2000.

Shaw, Robert Bruce. Trust in the Balance.
New York: Jossey-Bass, 1997.

Sherman, Barry. Telecommunications Management.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1995.

Sohn, Ardyth, et al. Media Management:
A Casebook Approach.
3rd ed.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.

Sylvie, George and Patricia D. Witherspoon.
Time, Change, and the American Newspaper.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Thomas, David A. and John J. Gabarro. Breaking Through:
The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.

Thompson, Terri, ed. Writing About Business: The New
Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Economics and Business Journalism
.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Underwood, Doug. When MBAs Rule the Newsroom:
How the Marketers & Managers Are Reshaping Today's Media.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Warner, Charles, ed. Media Management Review.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.

Winburn, Janice. Shop Talk and War Stories:
American Journalists Examine their Profession.
Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.

Wren, J. Thomas. Leader's Companion:
Insights on Leadership through the Ages
.
New York: Free Press, 1995.


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