Ian Hislop Quotes

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

I am so inspired by new media.

Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.

As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'

I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

I am extremely passionate about digital media and as a longtime user and fan of Yahoo!

No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.

People say: 'Oh, but would you be happy for your show to go on BBC3 if it was just online?' If I was sat here telling you I had just signed a huge deal with Netflix you'd be going: 'Wow, that's amazing.' You can't see it as 'Oh, it's no longer a channel because it's not on TV.'

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.

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

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.

We do live in this age of new media.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.

I just get my news from the Internet.

The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.

Everything seems set up for success in digital journalism - money, eyeballs, software, brands.

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.