Two quotes worth the stocking for journalists to consider.

Wow. Remember when we used to discover news fr

Image via Wikipedia

om…the news?

— Randi Zuckerberg, former marketing director of Facebook, and older sister of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (via Steve Rubel)

Image via CrunchBase

We don’t need paid professionals to do retweeting for us. They’re slicing up the attention pie thinner and thinner, giving us retreaded rehashes of warmed over news, all hoping for a bit of attention because the issue is trending. We can leave that to the unpaid, I think.

The hard part of professional journalism going forward is writing about what hasn’t been written about, directing attention where it hasn’t been, and saying something new.

— Seth Godin, entrepreneur, marketer, author and public speaker. (via Danny McCall)