Media Brief
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| 11:01 UK time, Thursday, 4 March 2010
I am the 91Èȱ¬'s media correspondent and this is my summary of what's going on.
The Trinity Mirror's profits fell 41 per cent to £72.7m in 2009. Ad revenue at its regional newspapers fell by almost 30 per cent.
Delia Smith and Heston Blumenthal are to star in TV commercials for Waitrose. It's the first time Delia has endorsed a supermarket .
The the Justice Secretary Jack Straw has announced that lawyers must cut their libel "success fees" from 100% to 10%. Last week a committee of MPs said they were having a "chilling effect" on investigative journalism.
TiVo, which pioneered the digital video recorder business in the US but left the UK after losing out to Sky+, is launching a new box .
Kimberly Quinn, the former Spectator publisher who hit the headlines over her affair with David Blunkett, has written a children's book. .
The GMTV presenter Penny Smith is leaving the sofa after 17 years amid claims of ageism.
Evocative posters of the "golden age" of rail are being auctioned. Ten of them can be .
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