Eric Brown Quotes

You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

Nobody will have control of the media in the future, because user-generated content is going to become the major content.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began.

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.

I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.

For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy, wear or think. Now consumers possess the same ability to produce, distribute and curate content and distribute it to their peers in real time across social media platforms.

WikiLeaks, for me, has not only that element in it of journalism publishing, but also the way in which it does it, with its - the concept we have of scientific journalism, I find very important and really appeals to me, that all of the source documents should be there.

With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.

I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way.

The difference between a reporter, a newspaper columnist, a paid speaker, a television personality, a radio talk show host, a blogger, a movie producer, a publicist, and a political strategist, is growing less - and not more - distinct.

Bloggers are not reporters.

There is no casting director; there is no producer monitoring your upload button. Anyone that looks like anyone can upload a video. I think YouTube and the digital space does set a really good example for the rest of the industry in that sense.