Commenter rips into Gavin O’Reilly’s view about the health of newspapers: "It’s fine for aul Gavin, investing in rising markets in India and Africa, but I don’t work there and I don’t invest there."

Matthew Buckland: "WAN also should be careful. Although it represents a powerful publishing lobby of newspapers and online publishers, the publishing community is anything but united on this issue."

"[I]f it’s such a good idea how come there is no ACAP compliant bug on either the WAN web site, nor the World Editors Forum (WEF) site published by WAN or for that matter on the sites of other publisher organizations that have supported the ACAP develop

Aussie rules, college baseball, cricket, rugby, football — lots of major sports are trying to contol journalists’ access to protect the exclusive rights they sell to broadcasters. This issue is not going to go away soon.

Peter Kirwan: "[T]he economics of print and online are about as compatible as Evian and crude oil."

Peter Preston looks at newspaper circulation figures: "Perhaps it isn’t demonic digitalisation that’s bringing us down, dear friends. Perhaps it’s just us - and what we produce. And perhaps we’re too damned morose about change."

WAN: Adam Pasick on Reuters’ Second Life Island, Richard Sambrook on the typology of UGC, and REbecca McKinnon on the unequal distribution of media coverage in the world.

A new WAN web site in support of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May highlights how anti-terrorist surviellance often has been used to "stifle debate and the free flow of information about political decisions" or have adversely affected press freedom.