Edward Snowden Quotes

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

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

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.

When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

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 read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.

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.

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

Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we're no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.

The big 3 networks don't like the fact that there's a Rush Limbaugh out there, they don't like the fact that there's a Fox News, they don't like the fact that there's a Matt Drudge. They liked it when it was nice, when it was just the three of them. Well, it ain't that way anymore.

I don't know what's going on with new media and digital stuff. It's all changing.

As far as the media is concerned, they ought to hate me. Before I came along, they had a monopoly. Before I came along, nationally all there was, was the three networks, the big newspapers, and CNN. When I started in '88, that was it. And now look. That monopoly they had is gone. Now there is Fox News, from 1996. That was nine years after I started. You got all kinds of conservative talk radio out there now. And that's done nothing but grow. I have not lost a single listener because of all the other shows. We've grown the pie, so to speak.

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

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

The one thing with the established and traditional media industries is that whenever something new comes along, they don't know what to make of it, and the natural reaction is to fight it or push back.

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

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.

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

The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

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

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.