Media Brief
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| 09:55 UK time, Friday, 11 June 2010
I'm the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.
Two hundred editorial jobs at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People are to be cut, a third of them casuals, .
that four names have been shortlisted for interview as controller of Radio 4: former Newsnight editor Peter Barron, now at Google; Tim Suter, former Ofcom partner; Mary Hockaday, head of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ multimedia newsroom; and the director of ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service's English Networks and News, Gwyneth Williams.
Caroline Thomson, the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s chief operating officer, has said the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s has got its top pay and perks "a bit wrong". The that she was responding to criticism at a conference from the former culture secretary Tessa Jowell, who set up the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trust and negotiated the current licence fee settlement.
https://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article7147852.ece
The Guardian reports that Jeremy Bowen, the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Middle East editor, has criticised the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trust ruling which found him guilty of inaccuracies. Receiving the Charles Wheeler award for outstanding journalism, he said lobbyists on both sides - including John Pilger - were "enemies of impartiality".
the start of the first African World Cup dominates the newspapers, along with President Obama's attacks on BP.
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