The Role of Human Resources in Media Reputation and Creating Reputational Capital

In today’s competitive environment, media try to attract more audience share from market. This is not possible unless media undertake a more active and distinctive role in the society. Reputation is a value distinguishing media in the increasing competitive atmosphere. Media reputation is determined by the way they interact with their audience as well as their activities in different fields, content in particular. Various variables affect media reputation and bring about audience’s preference of a certain media over others. However, the most important variable deemed as an important competitive advantage is media human resources. The results and implications of capabilities, capacities, skills and human resources’ knowledge is disseminated in information market and brings about the reputation of media. The present article examines all dimensions of media reputation along with the role of human resources development as the most influential factor.