Donald Newhouse Quotes

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

I'm definitely scared about newspapers. The problem is nobody wants to catch a falling knife, and nobody knows where things will stabilise. The value of newspapers has dropped significantly. I think we still have more pain to be felt.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago.

The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those.

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

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

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

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.

Newspapers for centuries enjoyed a virtual monopoly… Those days are gone. The trends are against us.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.