Mark McKinnon Quotes

There is no better source of real-time news than Twitter. With the constant sharing of news and information, if you're an active Twitter user, there's nothing happening, big or small, that you won't know right away.

We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

One of the things that Flipboard is great at is certainly looking at the news in a realtime format, which a lot of the personal news aggregators don't really focus on, so you can see things right up to the minute.

The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

Twitter is the first information that I ingest in the morning. When there are important things happening, friends of mine who follow news feeds will report on it, so I find out about most major news on Twitter.

It used to be CNN and other television outlets were founded on this idea of a news wheel. You give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world. But that's not the way people consume news and information any more.

I was one of the first to use the online medium as a way to talk about celebrity news in as close to real time as possible.

When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They're reporting what they're seeing and what's happening around them. So there's a lot of potential for breaking news.

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.

When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began.

It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.

Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for real-time news. That's the equivalent of the steam age.

The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

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.

Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.

The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.

With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.