Media Brief
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| 10:52 UK time, Wednesday, 30 June 2010
I'm the 91Èȱ¬'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.
The 91Èȱ¬ plans to close its final salary pension scheme to new employees and cap contributions to existing members, to tackle a £2bn deficit. that trade unions are threatening industrial action and it could be a model for the public sector.
Two award-winning posters for the clothing firm Diesel have been banned by the advertising watchdog for showing images of young women "likely to cause serious offence", .
In the US, the news that Larry King, the 76-year-old CNN talkshow host, has announced he will step down in the autumn, after months of speculation following a fall in ratings.
The 91Èȱ¬ is under fire over its Wimbledon coverage, . On messageboards, some viewers say it's focusing too much on low-cut dresses and canoodling couples in the crowd. The 91Èȱ¬ says it seeks to bring home the atmosphere and has had no complaints.
the Open University is claiming a world record for the number of academic downloads on iTunes - as the first to reach 20 million.
The newspapers are mostly unimpressed with the Russian 'spy ring's' espionage efforts, .
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