Departmental Influences on Interdepartmental Cooperation in Daily Newspapers

Abstract

A survey of Ohio daily newspaper department heads shows that interdepartmental differences about cooperation exist. Managers do positively distinguish their departments from others while agreeing on the role of goals in interdepartmental troubles. And how much cooperation a manager believes is needed - as well as the perception of which departments are or are not cooperative-depends on, to some degree, what department that manager manages. Still, departmental affiliation plays a negligible role in determining existing levels of cooperation. News managers generally named advertising as the most difficult department, while advertising said the same about news. Circulation was named most cooperative department.