Fifteen years ago, nobody thought that content would ever work as a business. It was impossible to raise any money, initial investments were $10,000,….

Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people..

The content defines the platform, so whereas when I was working at ABC from '66 to '76, people said it was the "great wasteland." It was the least-ob….

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss..

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good..

The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader ….

Successful publication is all about the mix. What Buzzfeed discovered was that people like cat pictures. We can pretend to be embarrassed about that ….

The tech folks have seen WiFi as the way to untether. And what better reason to untether than entertainment content? So there's nobody better positio….

People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are sta….

It's all about who your team is and who your people are..

Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive..

There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad..

My mission is to figure out the journalistic model for the digital medium, finding out how we get the right stories readers want, at the right time a….

The first reaction is, get defensive. Second reaction is, what are we going to do about it?.

Before the internet, big publications were like hydrants in the desert. There were relatively few of them, we needed each one of them tremendously an….

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not..

Everything I have is a private company. And even though a public company's a great thing, it's great for financing and all of the stuff you need to d….

Before the internet, a journalist would write an article about a company that the company felt was unfair and missed a point. All they could do was w….

Wrapping rubber bands around a watermelon is not journalism. It is entertainment. But the key to success in media has always been a broad mix of seri….

Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie busin….

This sounds crazy, I know, but you can make a billion dollars - very few people do - but you can make a billion dollars on a product. It can be "Lion….