Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Why is innovation needed in organizational media managing? Part 1 Ethnographing the newsroom 2. Print and digital: Synchronizing discrepant temporal regimes in the newsroom 3. From deadline to flowline: Managing paradoxical demands in news organizations through metaphor 4. Local journalism seen through the numbers: Interpreting metrics through quantitative and qualitative methods 5. Projects as containers of future hopes and dreams: Organizing innovation projects in the newspaper field Part 2 Interventions: Changing practices in the newsroom 6. Creating the new while producing the news: Managing media innovation in times of uncertainty 7. The Idea Propeller: Managing for collective creativity in newsrooms 8. Managing for audience engagement: Taking steps towards a ‘glowline’ co-production in the newsroom 9. Challenging digital utopianism: Electronic imaginaries and the second century of radio Part 3 Openings & collaborations: Renewing the newsroom 10. Managing journalistic innovation and source security in the age of the weaponized internet 11. Teaming up with technology: Socio-material managerial approaches for digital transformation 12. Education as innovation: Exploring the synergy of student-journalist collaboration 13. Context and continuities: A plea for media research in medias res

About the Author

Arne L. Bygdås is Senior Researcher at the Work Research Institute at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.

Stewart Clegg is Distinguished Professor of Management and Organization Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Aina Landsverk Hagen is Senior Researcher at the Work Research Institute at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.