What the British press commentators say...

Donald Trelford devotes his Independent column to the problems facing the unique collection of newspapers held by the British Library. Some 750m pages of the 52,000 titles have to be digitised as fast as possible because of rapid newsprint degradation. (I'll be coming back to this subject in future). In The Guardian, Emily Bell considers the growing reality of convergence while Ian Mayes, the readers' editor, tackles a journalistic tendency to produce ageist copy. (Via independent.co.uk and media.theguardian.com)