I'm much more optimistic about the future than I probably was.

The issues for journalism and journalists, we see obvious places where presentation is very different in a digital space from traditional print. If you go to a New York Times homepage, you cannot get to a story about the Ukraine without a click-off on a banner ad or a slide show. They're not alone in that - you think you're clicking on a video about a news event and you have a 30-second ad that you have to watch before you can get to it.

I tend to be more interested in the trend pieces than who got a licensing deal for sunglasses, but that's not surprising.

You learn a lot from your customers, and when your customers are also your owners, you learn even more.

If we can help an advertiser refine a message so it works for our consumers, we should be doing that, but at the same time, you never want to do it by confusing the customer about what the experience is. If we fail in that regard, we do our brand and our customers a disservice.

There are newsweeklies that are dead. Some may still be walking, but they're dead.

You can't just reprise the news. You have to have journalism that makes a point and you have to be in sync with your audience.