"Guardian News & Media is looking to enroll all 800 of its staff journalists on a voluntary ‘digital awareness programme’ ahead of the publisher’s move to a new 24/7 integrated newsroom this autumn."

Roger Alton recalls being banged out the Observer: "I am officially out of work for the first time in nearly 40 years. Being unemployed would be absolutely fine, I think, if you knew that, say, in nine months you’d land a dream gig somewhere."

"On Thursday, a bookish civil servant called Derek Pasquill will be remanded by Westminster magistrates to the Crown Court to face six charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act." … over leaks to the Observer and New Statesman…

McCall: "… we have to be more overt about the Observer coming from the Guardian news and media stable. But we’re not going to have the Guardian-on-Sunday - the Observer is a strong print brand."

Roy Greenslade on the Gruadian-Observer thing: "Let’s deal first with this feud business. It is just not true. What there is, however, is a genuine concern - among the staffs of both papers, including senior executives - about how the eventual integration

"The furore over the comment by James Watson, the Nobel prize for medicine winner who was one of the discoverers of the double helix structure of DNA, that Africans are less intelligent than Westerners, is turning into a debate over free speech."

More on the Graun/Obs ‘feud’ over Nick Davies’ book in the Mail: Kamal Ahmed denies "sexing up" dodgy dossier. Roger Alton: "I’ve never thought that much of Davies. It’s bo****ks."

Oooh. Gossip in the books section! Richard Brooks in the Sunday Times claims there is a feud between the Guardian and the Observer over Iraq, Nick Davies’ forthcoming book and Ben Goldacre’s criticism of the Obverver’s science reporting.

Ben Goldacre on blogs and newspaper science journalism: "This transparency and referencing is a huge feature and something blogs share with academia, but not with mainstream media, who could always previously rely simply on their natural authority."

Andrew Neil tells the FT that "newspaper owners should keep Sunday special or run “huge risks” of losing a unique part of their business".

Ben Goldacre’s recent criticism of the Observer was notable because it was so unusual; "self-criticism is not one of the UK media’s strongest suits," says Moore.

"So where does the renewed scare about the MMR vaccine come from? This is where the reporting becomes more difficult to assess."

"Michael Agar will be leaving The Observer to become graphics director for The Independent on Sunday"

Peter Cole in (of course) the Indy: "[Predict print's demise] often enough and people will believe it. We do not have to sell the death of newspapers in order to promote the growth of online." Ex-broadsheet quality papers are doing OK, remember?