Brit Hume Quotes

CNN is not a television network that has a website. CNN is a full-fledged media company.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well.

By using our international network, utilising templates and thinking ahead with pre-planned pages that contain carefully selected relevant news, we can deliver stories that other people just don't have. And that will release resources for the web.

I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.

My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.

Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.

I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be.

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.

I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'

When the Paris terror attacks happen, when war breaks out in Ukraine, when unrest happens in Ferguson, people know that CNN is the place to come.

CNN is destroying their franchise. They've become either the trial network or the story network.

I'm certainly proud of the transformation of Playboy from a magazine to a multimedia corporation.

I think viewers know CNN delivers time and time again on the most important stories.