Trevor Noah Quotes

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.

We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.

Everything I know about Facebook makes me want to avoid it. Twitter has really improved my reading habits.

If a website has something I should know, somebody is spinning it around Twitter and I'll see it there. Before I would look at Huffington Post and Slate every day, now I follow them on Twitter.

Instagram has a faster chance of reaching me than CNN, and if I really want to know what's going on, I refresh my Twitter feed.

Information is moving - you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

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

It used to be CNN and other television outlets were founded on this idea of a news wheel. You give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world. But that's not the way people consume news and information any more.

I have a big following on Twitter, and Twitter has been invaluable for mobilizing and quickly sharing information. But I'm not really sure that people are learning deep content on Twitter.

This media era is amazing. Twitter, Facebook, ESPN, news outlets everywhere.

I mainly use Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Those are my three.

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.

Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'

No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.