Live Direct and Biased or Corporate Governance

Live, Direct and Biased?: Making Television News in the Satellite Age

Author: Brent MacGregor

Former news producer and director Brent MacGregor takes a hard look at the changes that TV news has undergone, including an accelerated cycle, increased use of technology, and greater focus on the bottom line. MacGregor shows how the news media make decisions on a daily basis that may leave the public not as informed as it thinks. 256 pp.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	More news, less understanding?	23
2	Theories of news production, from 'Mr Gates' to market-driven journalism	44
3	Rhetoric and reality in 24-hour news	85
4	The history of television news and its institutions	110
5	International television coverage of the bombing of the Baghdad 'bunker'	147
6	The technology of newsgathering and production	174
7	Multiskilling or deskilling? Visions of the future and realities of today	202
	References and further reading	217
	Sources	227
	Index	229

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Corporate Governance: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Author: Xavier Vives

Corporate governance is an active area of research and public debate. The recent generalization of "shareholder value" ideas and institutional investment, the establishment of codes of best practice for boards of directors, and the controversy about whether market oriented or bank/relations oriented systems are better for economic performance provide cogent examples. The volume takes stock of the most recent research in the topic.

Contributors:
Xavier Vives, Franklin Allen, Douglas Gale, Jorge Padilla, Monika Schnitzer, Martin Hellwig, Andrei Shleifer, Wendy Carlin, Colin Mayer, Marco Beteh, Vicenç Salas, Masahiko Aoki, M. Angel García-Cestona, Raghuram Rajan, Luigi Zingales, Carmen Matutes, Joan Enric Ricart