Leonard Downie Jr. Quotes & Sayings

The more competition and the more voices - that's why I love bloggers and anything else the Internet can produce in the way of new news voices. — Leonard Downie Jr.

The New York Times and the Washington Post each contain roughly 100,000 words a day - about as many as this book. A typical NBC Nightly News broadcast contains 3,600 words. — Leonard Downie Jr.

In the Obama administration's Washington, government officials are increasingly afraid to talk to the press. The administration's war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I've seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in The Washington Post's investigation of Watergate. — Leonard Downie Jr.