Harold Evans Quotes

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

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

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.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.

Never miss the ham breakfast or the chili supper.... Spend a lot of time listening.

I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.'

I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.

For me, the high street is a key part of how we live, what sort of community we are, how we get our news, and how we get our gossip.

Newspapers have an extraordinary amount of local content, including real estate listings and restaurant reviews.

Knox County is home. I love it here, and I love the people.

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

I always try to address where I am. I'll talk to the people and try to find out what it is about that particular place that makes it distinct from everywhere else.

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.

Thankfully, readers send a lot of stuff. They see stories in their local newspaper. Or friends of mine email me, what they heard or saw. ... I'm very plugged in

Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.

Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.

I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.

Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.