"There still seems to be an assumption amongst ‘proper’ journalists that anyone who blogs is doing so because they want to be a journalist. This is demonstrably untrue."

Martin Belam: "For someone who mostly makes her living writing opinion pieces, [Yasmin Alibhai-Brown] skates on thin ice when she basically dismisses anyone else who writes self-taught opinion on the basis that they do it outside the old mainstream media

"Trust, as copiously debated over three days by the Society of Editors, is specific, not general."

"The public’s trust in TV news has dropped dramatically since 2002, according to new research from Ofcom."