While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.


Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does it matter if organisations independent enough and rich enough to employ journalists to do their job disappear? Yes, that matters hugely; it affects the whole of life and society.

The Business' has been an editorial success, with a core audience that loves it. But commercially it has never been a success as a newspaper. It just gets crowded out on a Sunday.

Newspapers are what matter in this country, not magazines.

Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'