Jeff Zucker Quotes

CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

The heart of Univision - and what we do - is here in Miami.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

Every news organization needs a social media strategy.

What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.

Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.

Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.

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

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

I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.

NBC News will help define Comcast.

Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be.

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.

Print is not dead.

Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of before, clearly aggregated by people who have been able to travel further and dig deeper than you have been able to do. And that used to be really an important source of stuff for me. And now it is less important because the Internet has eaten it all up. But my Twitter feed as an aggregator of novelty is like... I don't know what I would do if it became any more powerful, I would have to start reining it in somehow.

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

Thriving in the digital space is about constant commitment and engagement rather than being hit-driven like traditional media.

It used to be that we weren't even allowed on TV or pay-per-view, so we always spoke to our fans through the Internet.

When people laugh at social media it's because they don't understand how much work is involved. It's like creating any kind of content.

I come from a traditional media generation, you know? I'm like the last generation of that. And so the whole world has changed, ultimately. Coming into social media, Twitter, Facebook - I mean, the first social media I ever had was Tumblr.