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January 28, 2021updated 30 Sep 2022 9:59am

Media leadership lessons: Journalists are not business people, they are on a mission

By Chris Blackhurst

Former Independent editor Chris Blackhurst has held senior jobs in a variety of newsrooms. Here he shares his tips on managing newsrooms.

Hardly a day goes by without the announcement of a corporate move somewhere affecting the press, of a merger, consolidation, reorganisation, restructuring.

Little thought is ever given to its actual implementation. The news of the change is delivered in a bland, legally pored-over notice, and that’s that. Yes, but how do you put it into practice, how do you translate the business school-speak into reality?

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