Stephen Glover in The Independent offers advice to James Murdoch on what he should do, such as negotiate a merger between thelondonpaper and its Associated Newspapers' rival London Lite. Peter Wilby in The Guardian takes a look at a year of non-stories dominated by the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Peter Preston in The Observer hopes that Conrad Black is the last in the line of press barons once he is stripped of his title. Joia Shillingford in the Independent on Sunday considers the Evening Standard/Andrew Gilligan dispute with London's mayor, Ken Livingstone. (See also David Quinn's blog on this story).