WSJ managing ed Paul Steiger: "Next week I move over to a nonprofit called Pro Publica as president and editor-in-chief. When fully staffed, we will be a team of 24 journalists dedicated to reporting on abuses of power by anyone with power"

"In a ruling welcomed as a victory for freedom of the press, [the ECHR] has awarded damages to an investigative journalist whose home was raided and computers confiscated after he published reports alleging fraud within the European Union."

Nelson Schwartz and Lowell Bergman follow up the BAE systems investigation in the New York Times…

David Leigh: "The Internet … it also degrades valuable principles — the idea of discrimination, that some voices are more credible than others, that a named source is better than an anonymous pamphleteer"

"Today’s rant is addressed to investigative reporter David Leigh, a person I respect enormously but who makes the typical mistake, in the latest Press Gazette, of mistaking new media for old media".

Lloyd Shepherd: "There’s nothing quite like hearing very smart old-school journalists (you know, the ones who break big stories) saying very smart things about new forms of journalism. …"

[David] Leigh says he considered writing a book, but Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger persuaded him "books are old thinking – let’s do a website".

Juan Giner: "When you read the answers from Matthew Purdy, the New York Times Investigations Editor, you will realize that what his team does is just journalism with reporters that have more time do their job."