“The last day of August makes gods of excitable Sky Sports News presenters. If TV needs someone to announce the end of the world but make it sound like the best fun any of us could ever have, it must hand the job to Sky’s Jim White.” Read the full story

“[The PCC is] merely a body which deals with complaints about the press, the equivalent of the customer services department of any large corporate organisation.” Read the full story

“The redtops are not exclusively to blame [for trivialising the news]. Rarely does a so-called serious paper miss the opportunity to follow up on a celebrity story, sprinkling their reports with irony to help their more knowing readers digest more comfortably. I read them as assiduously as the next person.” Read the full story

“If anyone reading this runs a news channel, please, don’t clog the airwaves with fact-free conjecture unless you’re going to replace the word “expert” with ‘guesser’ and the word ‘speculate’ with ‘guess’, so it’ll be absolutely clear that when the anchor asks the expert to speculate, they’re actually just asking a guesser to guess.” Read the full story

“The British press, restrained, is like putting an attack dog on a slightly shorter leash than usual such that it can’t finish you off, perhaps, but can still do damage.” Read the full story

“What has happened at this company is disgraceful. It has to be addressed at every level. They should stop thinking about mergers when they have to sort out the mess they have created.” Read the full story

“If journalists, for reasons of nostalgia, inertia, confusion or misplaced loyalty, choose to keep swimming with the privacy intruders, they may well drown with them. If they push themselves free, then there is a better chance that we will find ways of protecting the freedoms that are vital to journalism.” Read the full story

“The Che Guevara of the 21st century is the network. It no longer takes a single charismatic revolutionary figure to inspire and organise the masses.” Read the full story