Randall L. Stephenson Quotes

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.

I don't think Apple has to own a content business.

Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!'

I am thrilled to share the news that Andrew Sullivan is bringing his trailblazing journalism to 'The Daily Beast.'

I know of no more patriotic group than television journalists.

While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

I'm gonna do a little radio, a little TV, and just create content in general and hopefully make the world a happier place.

Being editor-in-chief of the 'Guardian' and 'Observer' is an enormous privilege and responsibility, leading a first-class team of journalists revered around the world for outstanding reporting, independent thinking, incisive analysis, and digital innovation.

Media really excited me. As an undergrad, I majored in radio, television, and film and did internships with CNBC and CNN. My first job was at Sky News in London.

For someone like me, making a documentary - I don't kid myself. There's no influence at all. What I do is entertainment. I would even say much the same about the column I write in 'The Sunday Times.'

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that I haven't seen something like that before.

The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

The job I wanted before I was in college was to work for CBS.

Journalism is not writing.

The parallel we like to make.... is the idea of becoming the next Warner Brothers, which is a company that creates the content, but they also produce the content. They also distribute; they also market. So we say that because Fine Bros. and Warner Brothers is fun to say.

Star power will always remain relevant but content has become the king.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.