Is it just me? (probably), but with James Murdoch’s announcement that this Sunday (10th of July) will see the last issue of the News of the World, only hours old, there is much speculation amongst my colleagues about what News International will do to fill the void.  The highest circulating newspaper in the UK and one of the most influential in terms of reputation and profile across sport, celebrity and politics not to mention one of the most profitable – can anyone see the Murdoch’s simply walking away from that?

Most people’s money is on the ‘Sun on Sunday’ or some such – after all, what are ‘sisters’ for?  But I have always personally found the concept of a separate Sunday edition rather anachronistic, quaint even.

Wikipedia’s NOTW entry states the paper has “a fondness for sex scandals” and “a reputation  for exposing celebrities as drug users or criminals, setting up insiders and journalists in disguise to provide either video or photographic evidence”.

So completely different from the Sun then?  Or simply “same shit different day”?

The concept of the Sunday papers was one that was established before the media delivery that we have today.  When working abroad, I always felt the Sydney Morning ...