Sarah Lacy Quotes

'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.

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

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

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

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

I'm fascinated by journalism. I put a keen eye, not a negative eye, on its role, particularly how it is changed by the times we're living in.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

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

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

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.

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

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.