"The final printing at Wapping, a run of around 60,000 copies of The Sunday Times, was marked with a low-key, and for some emotional, celebration by a handful of staff."

"News International, owner of free daily thelondonpaper, and Associated Newspapers (London Lite) are participating in a ‘phoney’ expansion was in the UK. Both companies are trademarking their brands and registering Internet domain names in several are

"Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers, including the News of the World, The Times and The Sun, are expected to accelerate their push into online journalism under the media mogul’s 34-year-old son, James."

Associated Newspapers puts its spin on the news: "[T]he City’s Combined Code on Corporate Governance, published by the Financial Reporting Council four years ago, recommends that the chief executive of a company should not go on to become the chairman."

"The news that Daddy Rupert is making way for son James is not good for the PM."

"[Robert] Thomson will have the publisher’s title, the job is likely to be defined differently than in the past. Mr. Thomson isn’t expected to have purview over the business side of the Journal … and instead will concentrate on editorial matters."

"Al Trivino, art director for new projects at News International, gave a presentation about what he thought would be the future formats for newspapers, which would be a hybrid between a fixed newspaper format and structure, and the functionality of browse

"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."

It’s nice to see online metrics aren’t the only ones that provoke rows. Associated and News International are squabbling over teh sample size used by the National Readership Survey for their london freesheets.