Ken Auletta Quotes

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

The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.

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

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

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

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.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming at us at lightning fast speed. That technology has also democratized the gathering and dissemination of news, allowing for 'citizen journalists' to make their mark, even usurping the role of mainstream news organizations at times.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.

I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.

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.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.