Warren Buffett Quotes

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

It's important that communities support local, independent journalism, which many people rely upon for information relevant to their daily lives.

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

Newspapers have an extraordinary amount of local content, including real estate listings and restaurant reviews.

Many U.S. Sunday papers are monopolies, and their contents can be an extension of the daily.

A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.

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 reported, we reported, I reported the little things, the whist drives, the weddings, the funerals, the little speeches. In one sense it was the most boring copy in the world to anyone picking it up, but, on the other hand, it was crucial to the people who lived in those communities.

I've always been a firm believer in local news, because it's an opportunity to connect with the community where you live.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

People essentially like local news better than network news.

My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

NEWS is that which comes from North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

I don’t care if you fuck the elephants, but if you do, you can’t cover the circus.

My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write.

I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.

We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be rebuilt. We need more of a bottom-up sense of what it means to produce news.

I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.

The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.

I'm a unicorn in the world of journalism; I've stayed in the same mid-sized city, and that staying has allowed me to write two deeply-reported books.

For newspapers to continue to play an important role in civic engagement, they need more access to capital. Their decline has created a real threat to independent reporting at the state and local level.

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well