“I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.” FirstsStoriesCompetitionRadioNewspapersPrizeShort Story Author:Ian Rankin
“Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.” ThinkingWayDifferentStoriesTelevisionShapesPressureVery GoodRadioNewspapersLocalsLocal Business Author:Jeff Zucker
“In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.” WantStoriesHappensStressSacredAverageFavorsNewspapersCowsEmphasisPrintedSuppressionSacred Cows Author:Carl Sandburg
“At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.” IdeasStoriesCertainBitsSawsTelevisionParticularNewsTablesNewspapersEncountersBreakfastCommentArticlesRecallsRecognise Author:Mark Z. Danielewski
“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.” PeopleStoriesAmericaReadingNextCitiesWatchesNew YorkConversationTablesTrainNewspapersRestaurantsSubway Author:Bill Geist
“If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.” IfsStoriesScaryNewspapersScary Stories Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingStoriesNewspapersBackgroundsStorytellingArticles Author:Serge Schmemann
“The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.” StoriesShowsProblemTelevisionScientistNewspapersMagazinesExcitementGossipOld FashionedControversyExtinctionOccasionalColumnsContributingEditorialsTalk ShowsGeneral PublicStatisticianPaleontologyMagazine CoversMaelstrom Author:David M. Raup
“This is really hard to do but I'd like to change the tone now and briefly mention today's terrible tragedy in France. Twelve people were killed because a satirical newspaper made jokes that some group found offensive. All of us are accustomed to bad news from around the world. But this story hits home for anybody who mocks anyone.” PeopleWorldMadeHardStoriesHomeTodayFoundGroupsTerribleNewsJokesTragedyNewspapersAround The WorldFranceToneTwelveOffensiveAccustomedBad NewsSatiricalTerrible Tragedy Author:Conan O'Brien
“I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.” NeedsStoriesChanceMorningSeaTasteMouthsRiversFishesNewspapersBoatLakesFishingEvery MorningFisherman Author:Ed Zern