Ryan Holmes Quotes

It used to be CNN and other television outlets were founded on this idea of a news wheel. You give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world. But that's not the way people consume news and information any more.

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

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.

With the evolution of social media that includes blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, who and how information is delivered has changed tremendously. The landscape for news is a different place, and people have to accept that.

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

My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.

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.

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

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

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.

Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

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.

Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

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

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

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'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.

Newspapers for centuries enjoyed a virtual monopoly… Those days are gone. The trends are against us.

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

For blogs today, it's really about content creation and partnering with a brand. You can get the news in so many forms and so many places. A tweet now is enough to tell you about a story. People don't have to click to go to your site.

If a website has something I should know, somebody is spinning it around Twitter and I'll see it there. Before I would look at Huffington Post and Slate every day, now I follow them on Twitter.

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.

Information is moving - you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.