The credibility of a newspaper or news magazine is essential so you can check it for accuracy. I'm not saying it's not valuable. One can make a case ….

If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer c….

I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic cleansing. I said that w….

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news..

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding..

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has ….

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group..

People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in the ab….

When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy….

This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British para….

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the wo….

I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as e….

I think America has a brilliant future..

I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic….

I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn’t regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they report….

Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's ther….

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth..

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad..

The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news orga….

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors..

We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a….