Ha: "several overweight, 40-something hacks secured an emphatic 8-2 victory against students from Cardiff University’s School of Journalism. The students denied they had "thrown" the game amid fears their journalistic careers may be over before they even

"[A]s the shift goes from traditional print to web jobs, how will unions figure into the mix? Will they accept more flexible, always-on jobs, or defend the old ways of working for print deadlines?"

"Those who think they know what [the report from NUJ commission on multimedia working] says will be surprised and those who want to portray the NUJ as standing in the way of technology will be disappointed."

"The [NUJ] chapel at The Press in York has reached an agreement with management over how much news content journalists should upload to the website, following a four-month boycott."

Joanna Geary has an interesting back and forth with Donnacha DeLong about "web 2.0". He famously said it’s rubbish; she says it’s something professional journalists "need to find a way to use to our advantage".

"The NUJ may think that Web 2.0 is "rubbish ", but B2B journalists are increasingly turning to blogs and other forms of online media for information and ideas, according to a new survey."

Paul Bradshaw: "I don’t agree with everything the union does, but I do agree with its broad principles. And if the NUJ is sounding protectionist or Luddite, then I’d rather engage with it."

"… some of the UK’s better regional news outfits will suffer further if the media conglomerates continue to publish more reader content at the expense of professional content"

"Members of the National Union of Journalists are marching to the Radisson Edwardian hotel at 12.30pm as part of a national day of action."

"Much of the discussion reminds me of the shouts of pain from IT mainframe people in the early 1980s where they saw their world being threatened by PCs and ‘non IT professionals’."

Michelle Stanistreet: "In Teesside… Trinity Mirror has gone a step further by using content generated free by readers on the web to fill its free newspapers. … the union believes that democracy and communities are best served by professional[s]."

Kevin Anderson replies to Gary Herman: "Hey guys, if you want to create an ‘us versus them’ line in the sand, congratulations, you’ve succeeded. … The NUJ really needs to work on its PR in terms of courting new media journalists."