1. Organizational Structure Of Newspaper
and Magazine
Mentor: Dr. Om Prakash Presented by: – Rahul Kumar
Roll no. – 12/pmmc/03
Subject – Media Management
Gautam Buddha University
Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh – 201310

2. • Every company has two organizational structures: The formal
one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday
relationship of the men and women in the organization.
Harold S. Geneen
• The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization
are disorder, friction, and Mal-performance.
Peter F. Drucker
• Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on
its early work, its progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

3. Definition
• The typically hierarchical arrangement of lines of
authority, communications, rights and duties of an
organization. Organizational structure determines how the
roles, power and responsibilities are assigned, controlled,
and coordinated, and how information flows between the
different levels of management.

4. Brief Introduction
Organizational Structure is a framework where, the
communication, task, duties, responsibility and many things
done with the help of some channel which directly and
indirectly related to the organization structure. It tells how to
work, how to achieve the goal, and how to coordinate with
their subordinates every thing is intertwined. In this
information flows in many channel.

5. Organizational Structure can be vary on the basis of
Objective, Goals, Strategy and Vision.
It can be centralized or decentralized. In centralized
organizational structure the top level management has the
power of decision making and to control the whole the
system and channel of information flow. But In
Decentralized Structure, the Power of the organization
has distributed among the all to work free with
independence. The decision making power is distributed
among the department to show its efficiency.

6. Finally! What is Organizational structure
Top Level
Information flow from Up to Down
And Down to Up

7. Why should you develop a structure
for your organization?
• It gives members clear guidelines for how to
proceed.
• It binds members together.
• It help to overcome by some future events in
any organization which is inevitable.
By: Bill Berkowitz

8. When should you develop a structure
for your organization?
• While the need for structure is clear.
• Regardless of what type of structure your
organization decides upon, Three elements will
always be there.
• They are:
-Some kind of governance.
-Rules by which the organization operates.
-A distribution of work.

9. • Governance 1st element –
Some person or group has to make the decisions within the
organization.
• Rules by which the organization operates.
Rules may be explicitly stated and implicit and unstated.
• Distribution of work
Inherent in any organizational structure also is a distribution
of work. The distribution can be formal or informal, temporary
or enduring, but every organization will have some type of
division of labor.

10. Newspaper
• Organizational structure of a newspaper can be
grouped by: frequency of publication; this is dailies
or weeklies and a paper has to appear at least five
times in a week to become a daily.
• Secondly is market size; national, large, medium,
small. National; the publication covers the whole
nation and not a particular region or state.

11. Organizational Structure of Newspaper

12. Magazine
• Organizational structure of a magazine can be
grouped by: Frequency of publication: this is
dailies (e-magazine GK today), weekly,
monthly and fortnightly.

13. Organizational Structure in Magazine
President Publisher
Section Editor Design Editor Copy Editor
Associate/
Assistant Editor
Online Editor
Editor-in chief
Managing Editor
Writing/
Contributing Editor
Photographer
Freelancer
Assistant
Design Editor
Layout Editor
Assistant
Copy Editor
Editorial
Face Character
Assistant
Online Editor

14. References:
• www.brainyquote.com
• www.businessdictionary.com
• www.ctb.ku.edu
• www.jprof.com
• www.wikianswers.com
• www.thefreedictionary.com

15. Thank you