Rupert Murdoch Quotes

I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

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

Many people think that the print press is dying in America. Well I do not agree. And neither does my blacksmith.

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

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

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.

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

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

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

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

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.

… printed newspapers on actual paper may be a luxury item. It’s sort of like … people still have horses, but it’s not their primary way of commuting to the office.

People can say: Okay, it's not the old-fashioned traditional journalism that took place in the 'Houston Chronicle' in 1975 - it's different. But that's also why newspapers are having a hard time staying relevant, you know?

I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.

I am going to pick on 'Huffington Post.' A lot of its content is great. They are doing a lot of original content now, but historically, a lot of what they did was aggregation. Newspapers don't want to become that, and yet 'Huffington Post' is incredibly popular. It's incredibly successful.

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

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

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines.

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.

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.

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.