Syllabus
Unit 1
Management concept – Principles of Management – Factors influencing Management decision in media –
Structure and characteristics of media organizations – Newspapers and Magazines, Radio, Television, Cinema –
Ownership in Media Industries – Merits and de-merits.
Unit 2
Economics of newspaper – Advertising vs circulation – Management problems of small, medium, large
newspapers: gathering, processing, printing, circulation, distribution, advertising, professionalism, trade
unionism, News room diversity.
Unit 3
Economics and Administrative concerns of government owned electronic media-market driven media:
private channels – Social commitment vs Profit making.
Unit 4
Economics of film Industry – creativity, production, marketing distribution, exhibition, ownership vs piracy.
Unit 5
News agencies and syndicates: Ownership and organization structures – committees to study the problems of
various media in India.