Media Brief
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| 10:30 UK time, Wednesday, 4 August 2010
I'm the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.
The government's Central Office of Information is to cut 40% of its staff as it cuts back heavily on advertising. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ reports 287 advertising and marketing jobs will go.
The [subscription required] the Government's advertising cutback will have a big impact on traditional media.
ITV's chief executive Adam Crozier set out his five-year turn around strategy, including a return to pay-TV, but the analysts remain unconvinced.
The Advertising Standards Authority has rejected more than a thousand complaints about the first TV commercial to offer advice on abortion services. The "Are you late?" campaign for the Marie Stopes charity prompted a further three thousand complaints via petitions and postcards reports the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and the .
The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s newspaper review says several papers focus on David Cameron's revelation that council house tenants may not be able to expect a "home for life".
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