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I'm the 91Èȱ¬'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 91Èȱ¬ multimedia newsroom; and the director of 91Èȱ¬ World Service's English Networks and News, Gwyneth Williams.

Caroline Thomson, the 91Èȱ¬'s chief operating officer, has said the 91Èȱ¬'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 91Èȱ¬ Trust and negotiated the current licence fee settlement.
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The Guardian reports that Jeremy Bowen, the 91Èȱ¬'s Middle East editor, has criticised the 91Èȱ¬ 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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