Today’s the launch of body that’s supposed to bolster the SA Press Ombudsman – a new Press Council. There are a good number of changes needed that I wrote about in my column Converse this week. Too late for inclusion were the following titbits received from outgoing Ombud, the former Sapa editor Ed Linnington.

Q: What would you say in a nutshell has been the value of the past ten years of the ombud?