“I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for.” ThinkingWayNeedsHelpingCan DoExpressionPaidNewspapersNew WaysEditorialsOversight Author:Steve Jobs
“I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.” WayEndsSchoolOrderWeekMonthsDecidedPaidNewspapersSensibleArranging Author:Terry Pratchett
“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.” TodayReadingSimpleHalfSituationFiguresIndustryInternetCostMachinesPaidNewspapersFundArticlesCentsBankingPaymentTransfersDwarfsDwarves Author:Erik Naggum
“Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.” MeanFiveThousandFameGloryPaidDinnerNewspapersArticlesTwelveCrowns Author:Honore de Balzac
“When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.” HandsGivenOpinionPaidNewspapersFenceScratchesColumnsChins Author:Carl Hiaasen
“I believe that online paid content hasn't worked for general circulation newspapers because consumers weren't ready for it, because the implementation did not deliver enough value, because content was typically the same as in the print version, and because much of the material was being syndicted by the papers to other publishers or was not protected with DRM technologies to exclude use by others.” BelieveEnoughUseValuesI BelieveTechnologyReadyMaterialsPaperPaidNewspapersVersionsConsumersOnlinePrintProtectedPublishersPapersCirculationImplementationDrm Author:Robert G. Picard
“My first paid job was delivering newspapers. The first paid acting job I got was dressing up as Edam cheese and handing out leaflets on London's Oxford Street. I got pushed over by these little herberts and given a good shoe-in.” FirstsLittlesJobsGivenActingStreetsPaidShoesLondonNewspapersCheeseDressingsDeliveringOxfordDressing UpGood ShoesOxford Street Author:Jason Flemyng
“It bothers me when people, say, you know, write for, you know, a web publication and get paid little or nothing or, you know, expecting to, like, read the best newspapers in the world and not pay a cent for it. Those newspapers need money in order to operate.” PeopleKnowsWorldNeedsWritingLittlesOrderPayPaidNewspapersBotherExpectingCentsPublicationNeed Money Author:Terry Gross
“My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.” ThinkingWorldYearsMadeHomeBigsSchoolBlackRolesAdviceCryTaughtModelsHigh SchoolPaidFinancialSavedCoreNewspapersFinanceGrandmotherRole ModelsNurseStemRetiredSkepticalMamaPaychecksColumnistsSchool EducationPersonal FinancePaid OffBig Mama Author:Michelle Singletary
“If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.” IfsTwoMightLiteratureWrittenThousandTenPaidRateNewspapersCommandmentsMosesTen Commandments Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.” WritingFirstsStoriesFivePiecesPaidDollarsNewspapersShort StoryPublicationSyndicate Author:Theodore Sturgeon