Adam Lee-Potter

Journalist, interviewer and media lecturer

How this scandal develops and how many other scalps it claims, the truth is this: we will always need journalism and we will always need journalists.

Jonathan Walker

Jonathan Walker is the Political Editor of the Birmingham Post and Birmingham Mail

Nobody has done more to bring the truth about phone hacking at the News of the World into the open than West Midlands MP Tom Watson.

David Singleton

David Singleton, associate editor, PR Week UK

The imminent closure of the News of the World does not change the fact that Cameron is closely linked to the paper through his associations with Andy Coulson, Rebekah Brooks, Elisabeth Murdoch and others.

Laurence Durnan

Editor, Political Scrapbook

As Britain's top-selling newspaper collapses under the weight of its own phone hacking scandal, online activists can take inspiration from their role in the chain of events which brought the News of the World crashing to the ground.

Howard Lake

Digital fundraising entrepreneur and publisher of fundraising.co.uk

All UK charities have suddenly found themselves facing the same dilemma: do they take up the offer of free advertising space in the final edition of the News of the World, or do they reject association with the toxic brand? Free coverage in what was Britain's highest selling Sunday newspaper? At a time when many charities are facing funding cuts and tough fundraising conditions? Surely that is not such a difficult decision to make?

Martin Lewis

British-born, Hollywood-based humorist, commentator, producer and radio host

Good day Andy Coulson! Your brown-nosed loyalty to Murdoch has brought you absolutely nothing. For two decades you carried water for him, his greed and his political agenda. Now to save his precious News International takeover of BSkyB, his company shares and the woman he dare not fire (Rebekah) you have been thrown to the wolves.