Marc Reeves on the conservatism of newspaper management - and journalists: "The most senior managers in most newspaper groups achieved their positions at a time when the world was certain, definable and predictable. The model was 150 years old and still going strong. Nothing – but nothing – in their experience equipped them to anticipate or create change, unless it was to manage decline and cut costs during one of the periodical and predictable cyclical economic downturns. ... The certainty that the [NUJ] would oppose any change has only helped confirm change-averse managers in their own conservatism."

Marc Reeves on the conservatism of newspaper management - and journalists: "The most senior managers in most newspaper groups achieved their positions at a time when the world was certain, definable and predictable. The model was 150 years old and still going strong. Nothing – but nothing – in their experience equipped them to anticipate or create change, unless it was to manage decline and cut costs during one of the periodical and predictable cyclical economic downturns. ... The certainty that the [NUJ] would oppose any change has only helped confirm change-averse managers in their own conservatism."