Jill Abramson Quotes

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

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.

The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

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

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

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

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.

I have had a lot of cool offers to move into traditional media, but I'm not completely sold I have to do that.

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

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

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.

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

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

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.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

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

Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of before, clearly aggregated by people who have been able to travel further and dig deeper than you have been able to do. And that used to be really an important source of stuff for me. And now it is less important because the Internet has eaten it all up. But my Twitter feed as an aggregator of novelty is like... I don't know what I would do if it became any more powerful, I would have to start reining it in somehow.

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

Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and so the cost must fall somewhere - why not on the people who use it?

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

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

If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers.

Everything has gotten less expensive. Digitization has made content, whether it's print or music, less costly. Today, anyone can read the news for free online.