Media Brief
I'm the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.
that with five weeks left to make up their minds, fewer than half of those working on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Breakfast are expected to move 200 miles north to Salford. It says Sian Williams - its best known face - is among those still uncertain about whether to relocate, while only a handful of the 100 who work on the show have definitely decided to move.
, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is still secretly paying hundreds of thousands of pounds in bonuses to executives, despite a public pledge that it would scrap them. A ´óÏó´«Ã½ spokesman said the corporation was obliged to pay the bonuses: "No annual bonuses have been awarded to ´óÏó´«Ã½ staff since 2009 and pay is frozen for senior managers for the next three years. Bonuses have been paid where we are contractually committed to them."
A new website promises to shine a spotlight on "churnalism" by exposing the extent to which news articles have been directly copied from press releases. The website, churnalism.com, created by charity the , allows readers to paste press releases into a "churn engine" and compare the text with a database of more than 3m articles. it shows that all media organisations at times republish, verbatim, material sent by marketing companies and campaign groups.
Events in Libya and their repercussions continue to take centre stage in Thursday's papers, as highlighted in the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s newspaper review.
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