John Kimball Quotations

Scott's contributions to America's newspapers go far beyond leading the advertising and research teams in San Diego.

We believe that readership and circulation need to be looked at in tandem because today's newspaper's brand includes not just the core product but the leading local web site and an array of other products in that market as well.

Newspapers have been working very hard in coming up with a lot of thousand-dollar answers to the million-dollars problem,

That's not happy news, ... It's vital to see these numbers as part of the bigger audience picture.

There are serious issues that the industry's facing, but we're certainly not burying our heads in the sand. There's a great deal of experimentation going on -- with youth, with free distribution, with different editorial content models. Stuff that works is hanging around, and stuff that doesn't work isn't.

We want to surprise the advertising industry with the facts and truth about newspapers.

I think it is a real stretch to say the decline of department store advertising has forced layoffs at any one newspaper.

About 18 to 20 percent of the newspapers that reported had gains and most of those were smaller-market newspapers.

This seemed like a great opportunity for me to be entrepreneurial and build something.

I don't think I've ever seen the sense of innovation and willingness to take risks that I'm seeing now.