A 10-year-old's view of newspapers and the web

We editors are always beating ourselves up about the future of newspapers and the web. Will there be anything left in print in 25 years time? Is the internet the only future.

While we pontificate, such destinies are going to be decided for us by the children of today.

And so I was particularly pleased to hear the opinions of my clever niece Livvy Barnes, aged 10, when she told me what she thought about the media.

She said: "I read newspapers when there's something important in them, when something's happened in the world that I want to find out about. I don't use the web for this, as I don't think it has the best information.

"What I use the web for is to chat online with friends and family, but not for news. I don't think the web is accurate for news, because anyone can write anything and we don't know who's checked it.

"It can take a long time to find the right reports on the web but in a newspaper it's all there and you know you can trust it because editors have gone through it."

I do like my niece Livvy!