Arthur Christiansen Quotes

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: ‘Good heavens’, when you looked at the middle page you said: ‘Holy smoke’, and by the time you got to the back page—well, I’d have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

No matter how many media for the dissemination of news are created, there is one rule that should never be broken: tell the people!

Remember the people in the back streets of Derby.

The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any  rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.

Whenever possible print a woman’s age.