Lionel Barber Quotes

Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

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.

Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

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 think newspapers will survive in some form or another.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

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.

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

Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

The age of the book is almost gone.

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

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

We do live in this age of new media.

Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalists and interviews and articles and pinups and posters to follow our favourite artists. Nowadays? Twitter is actually the new rock magazine.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

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

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

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

I discover real-time news far more often on Facebook than on Google News or a regular Google search.

I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.