Stefano Tonchi Quotes

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

I still have the 'New York Post' delivered because it's so garrulous and nasty and wonderful when you read it in print. Some things just don't translate online.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

I think that the Internet and print behave in a complementary manner.

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

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.

TV is just another opportunity for me to entertain people. Although it's definitely a lot slower than the Internet, that's for sure.

Qwiki is a game changer. The team has succeeded in creating an entirely new media format that will drastically improve the web experience.

Television... is not a substitute for print.

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.

Entertainment and information work well together.

The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

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

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

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

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

I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

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.