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From Paternalism to Cynicism: Narratives of a Newspaper Company

Majella O'Leary

University of Exeter, M.O'Leary{at}Exeter.ac.uk

This article examines the stories told by employees in a 160-year-old newspaper production and publishing company, the Courier. Over 100 interviews with employees of the newspaper company (past and present) were carried out over a six-year period during which the Courier was undergoing major change, including the move from a local to a national newspaper. In this article, I organize these stories into four narrative constructions ('paternalism', `profit', `career' and `cynicism') which represent different ways of thinking about organizations, variously emphasizing family and community, competition and prohibition, publicity and success, and injustice and deception.

Key Words: cynicism • deception • narrative constructions • paternalism • storytelling

Human Relations, Vol. 56, No. 6, 685-704 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/00187267030566003
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