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Torin Douglas Torin Douglas | 10:34 UK time, Wednesday, 14 July 2010

I'm the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on. Some content may need a subscription.

The DJ Jon Gaunt has lost his legal battle with the media regulator Ofcom over a TalkSport broadcast in which he called a local councillor a "Nazi". But the complex ruling was not a total defeat. The the Sun is considering applying to Ofcom for a digital licence for its online radio show SunTalk, hosted by Gaunt.

she has submitted a dossier to the chairman of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trust, Sir Michael Lyons, which she believes it will trigger "nothing short of a revolution within Television Centre". It was compiled in conjunction with Age UK, and claims "an obsession with youth" has left women over 50 redundant at the ´óÏó´«Ã½.

The the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has told staff it is considering moving ´óÏó´«Ã½ One's Breakfast programme to its new Northern base in Salford. The staff are angry and think it will be a "gift to ITV" because stars won't want to go there to be interviewed. But if it happens, viewers could really start to notice that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ was making more of its programmes in the North.

Is David Cameron the first Prime Minister who really gets the internet? The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Rory Cellan Jones says the PM has an iPad as well as a Blackberry but questions whether his ambitions to take the UK to the top of the broadband league are realistic.


The ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website has a new look. Editor Steve Herrman explains what's changed and why.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Newspaper review says the papers have extensive coverage of the killing of three British soldiers and the wounding of four others by a renegade Afghan serviceman. Papers review


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• Rory Cellan Jones | ´óÏó´«Ã½ | Cameron: The first iPM?
• Steve Hermann | ´óÏó´«Ã½ | ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website redesign (2)
• ´óÏó´«Ã½ | Newspaper Review

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