Ajit Pai Quotes

The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

Well, the fact that the news industry doesn't have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don't know how to get there.

It's important that communities support local, independent journalism, which many people rely upon for information relevant to their daily lives.

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.

What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say.

I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.

In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.

I'd been involved in journalism for a long time - my dad's a journalist, he's written many books, and when I was twelve years old I wrote reports on local football matches for the newspapers.

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.

The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive - sorry, I had to say it.

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.