Media Brief
I'm the 91Èȱ¬'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on. Some content may need a subscription.
The DJ Jon Gaunt has lost his legal battle with the media regulator Ofcom over a TalkSport broadcast in which he called a local councillor a "Nazi". But the complex ruling was not a total defeat. The the Sun is considering applying to Ofcom for a digital licence for its online radio show SunTalk, hosted by Gaunt.
she has submitted a dossier to the chairman of the 91Èȱ¬ Trust, Sir Michael Lyons, which she believes it will trigger "nothing short of a revolution within Television Centre". It was compiled in conjunction with Age UK, and claims "an obsession with youth" has left women over 50 redundant at the 91Èȱ¬.
The the 91Èȱ¬ has told staff it is considering moving 91Èȱ¬ One's Breakfast programme to its new Northern base in Salford. The staff are angry and think it will be a "gift to ITV" because stars won't want to go there to be interviewed. But if it happens, viewers could really start to notice that the 91Èȱ¬ was making more of its programmes in the North.
Is David Cameron the first Prime Minister who really gets the internet? The 91Èȱ¬'s Rory Cellan Jones says the PM has an iPad as well as a Blackberry but questions whether his ambitions to take the UK to the top of the broadband league are realistic.
The 91Èȱ¬ News website has a new look. Editor Steve Herrman explains what's changed and why.
The 91Èȱ¬ Newspaper review says the papers have extensive coverage of the killing of three British soldiers and the wounding of four others by a renegade Afghan serviceman. Papers review
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• Rory Cellan Jones | 91Èȱ¬ | Cameron: The first iPM?
• Steve Hermann | 91Èȱ¬ | 91Èȱ¬ News website redesign (2)
• 91Èȱ¬ | Newspaper Review