Bases Quote by Mathias Dopfner

The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far from corrupting…

— Lachlan Murdoch

Journalism is the entertainment business.

— Frank Herbert

Some media companies that rely on advertising revenue are tying journalist compensation to the traffic their story generates. It doesn't work because it de-prioritizes…

— Om Malik

My view of journalism is that it needs to be independent but it's not independent when someone is paying the bills for you.

— Peter Sunde

Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must "always," make money…

— Dan Rather

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and…

— Heather Brooke

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

— Russell Baker

If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create…

— Bill Kovach

Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what…

— Bill Moyers

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even…

— Michael Jackson

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to…

— Ferdinand Lassalle

“Though it’s hard to believe now, newspapers were once the envy of the business world. Through the eighties and nineties, 20, 30, even 40…

— Astra Taylor