Media Quotes of the Week: From end of the Q - why the music biz will miss the music press to online gloating as the Guardian cuts journalists

Q magazine editor Ted Kessler on Twitter: "I have some bad news about @QMagazine. The issue that comes out on July 28 will be our last. The pandemic did for us and there was nothing more to it than that...On the plus side, we’re all available for work."

Q founder David Hepworth in the New Statesman: "Everybody can always tell you how they would have saved it: fewer Liam Gallagher features; a better website; more of the groups I happen to like. All their grand schemes will never be proven or otherwise. I certainly don’t know how it could have been saved. Music journalism was a product of the age of print and paper; put it on a screen and it no longer crackles. To the editorial team I would say this: it’s not your 'fault'. You're not a genius when the market’s running for you and you’re not a failure when it's going the other way. To the music business I would say, you’re going to miss the music press. Why? Because it did one thing you failed to value. Through its lens it made your acts seem exciting and larger than life, even when they weren’t."

Chris Morley, Reach NUJ national coordinator, in a statement on the company's job cuts and digital plans: "The enormous challenge of recent months for our members, working against incredible obstacles thrown up by the pandemic, to produce quality journalism is now turning into a struggle to remain their community’s journalistic champion. From the soundings we have taken since the announcement to the City of these big job losses, members have not bought into this vision that they believe threatens to weaken the company’s core revenue producer, print, still further."

BBC News in a statement after the Labour Party apologised and paid damages to Panorama journalist John Ware and whistleblowers who appeared in a programme about anti-semitism in the party: “The BBC will always support fair and impartial reporting, exposing wrongdoing and holding power to account. The Panorama programme did precisely that, but was subject to an extraordinary and vitriolic attack by the Labour Party. We welcome today’s long overdue apology to John Ware and the seven Panorama whistleblowers, who have been subjected to painful and damaging personal attacks on their integrity and character."

• John Ware writing in the Daily Mail: "Jeremy Corbyn declared Labour's decision to settle with the whistle-blowers was a political one, rather than a legal one. I am advised this in itself is defamatory and am consulting my legal team over whether to sue the former Labour leader." 

The Independent in an editorial: "Around the world, from Poland to India, democratic societies are experiencing chilling attacks on press freedoms. But in the land of Woodward and Bernstein, of Martha Gellhorn, of Dan Rather, Barbara Walters and Walter Cronkite, of the Pulitzer Prize and Magnum, of Time magazine and The New Yorker, there is something deeply poignant and worrying about these new insidious trends. A nation that led the world in press freedom is now placing that freedom in jeopardy."

Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable Simon Byrne in a statement: "This morning I have written to both Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney offering them an unreserved apology for the distress and upset caused to them and their families following the execution of search warrants at their homes and business premises on 31 August 2018. While the searches were planned and conducted at the direction of officers from Durham Constabulary, those officers were acting on behalf of the Police Service of Northern Ireland in an external capacity and I fully accept the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice that the search warrants were unlawful."

David Aaronovitch on Twitter: "Unfortunately I was unable to catch Piers Morgan's Twitter announcement of his new book attacking snowflakey cancel cuture, because he's blocked me. But I'm sure it will be as worth reading as all his other stuff."

Chairman of the Scott Trust, Alex Graham, in an email to Guardian staff saying the Trust has commissioned research into the paper's founder John Edward Taylor's possible links to slavery: “We have seen no evidence that Taylor was a slave owner, nor involved in any direct way in the slave trade,But were such evidence to exist, we would want to be open about it. In any event, we must acknowledge that as cotton and textile merchants, some of Taylor and his funders’ family businesses would almost certainly have traded with cotton plantations that used enslaved labour.”

Peter Jukes on Twitter: "I get that people don’t like the BBC because of coverage of Indyref and Corbyn, or don’t like the Guardian because of coverage of trans issues (and Corbyn). But think. 100s of good journos are losing jobs which will never come back. You won’t even know what you don’t like anymore."

Isabel Oakeshott on Twitter: "So the @guardian is cutting 180 jobs, including 70 from editorial teams. Sounds like they had more staff than readers."

• Guardian political correspondent Peter Walker on Twitter responding to Oakeshott: "This is such a depressing, petty sentiment, even by the standards of Twitter – a wealthy, well-connected journalist, celebrating the imminent redundancy of other journalists, who will invariably be much less wealthy and well-connected."

David Banks on Twitter: "If we saw cuts at the Daily Mail, or the Telegraph on the same scale as The Guardian I doubt very much we’d see the same crowing from right wingers as we’ve seen from leftists here. You come to the conclusion that there are elements of the left who really don’t like journalists."