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Torin Douglas Torin Douglas | 10:05 UK time, Friday, 16 July 2010

I'm the 91Èȱ¬'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on. Some content may need a subscription.

Gwyneth Williams, the new controller of Radio 4, as "the ultimate insider" and a safe pair of hands. She's "genuinely first-rate", according to Robert Peston, another candidate for the job, .

The government has delayed its plans for rolling out universal broadband by three years, says the 91Èȱ¬.

The that the 91Èȱ¬ executives spent £10,000 on taxis during the past three months, according to the 91Èȱ¬'s regular declaration of expenses. But says they've cut back in the past year.

, philanthropists and arts sponsors have told the government that private giving cannot replace public spending on the arts.

The , that the Sun has shut down its internet radio show SunTalk, days after its presenter Jon Gaunt lost his legal action against Ofcom.

Potential cost-cutting measures fill the papers, with graduate tax and free bus passes making many headlines, says the 91Èȱ¬ newspaper review.

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