What the media commentators are saying...

Two contrasting articles about the media are required reading today. Start with Peter Preston in The Observer who considers the ongoing problems of newspapers as sales of paid-for titles founder, freesheets prosper and advertising assumes even greater commercial importance to newsprint's dodgy finances. Then turn to Michael Bywater in the Independent on Sunday for a first-class analysis of new media's own battles, with a struggle for supremacy by internet companies and a parallel struggle for visibility by its users. (Via The Observer and The Independent on Sunday)