News Trends Quotes

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

The consumption of news is up, but the way people are receiving the news has changed

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.

News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

In 2014, topics like Black Lives Matter, the Middle East, and Ebola were prominent in the national discussion, with mentions of then-President Barack Obama making up a relatively small slice of the discussion on news twitter.

In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.