Managing Electronic Media

Today's electronic media managers must address new issues that their predecessors never faced, from the threats of professional piracy and casual copying of digital media products, to global networks, on-demand consumption, and changing business models. The book explains the new vocabulary of media moguls, such as bandwidth, digital rights management, customer relations management, distributed work groups, centralized broadcast operations, automated playlists, server-based playout, repurposing, mobisodes, TV-to-DVD, and content management. The chapters logically unfold the ways that managers are evolving their practices to make content, market it, and deliver it to consumers in a competitive, global digital marketplace.

Joan Van Tassel, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at National University. She was an award-winning television producer for ten years, wrote on technology and technology management for The Hollywood Reporter, and consulted with major companies on content management projects and digital rights management. She is the author of five books on the business of media content in the networked environment. Her book, Digital TV Over Broadband (Focal Press), received the 2001 Cable Center Book Award from the National Cable Center and Museum.

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND CONTENT-PRODUCING ORGANIZATIONS; Media Industries; Media Organizations; MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP IN MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS; Management and Leadership; Managing Human Resources; Financial Management; MANAGING CONTENT PRODUCTION, ACQUISITION, AND AGGREGATION; Programming, Audience Analysis, and Planning; Preproduction, Production, and Post-Production; Program Acquisition and Aggregation; MONETIZING CONTENT; Packaging, Repackaging and Marketing Content; Selling and Promoting Content; Distributing Content; The Changing Content Value Chain; Business Models; FACING THE FUTURE; Ethical Management in Competitive Industries; Legal and Regulatory Issues; The challenge of Changing Technology