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This round-up of today's main media stories reports on questions following Cheryl Cole's signing as a judge on the US version of X Factor.

Simon Cowell has ended months of speculation by confirming that Cheryl Cole will join him as a judge on the US version of The X Factor, . It says the announcement will spark a new round of speculation over whether Cole will continue as a judge on the ITV1 version of the show, which she joined three years ago.

The there are fears that her north-east accent may prove incomprehensible to viewers when the show launches in the US in the autumn.

91Èȱ¬ News is to axe a further 45 jobs in the final stage of a five-year plan that will see the loss of more than 450 posts, . 91Èȱ¬ News has already closed 420 posts under the Creative Future plan. By the end of year five, it will have saved £161m, of which the corporation said £63.4m has been reinvested into journalism.

The the Telegraph Media Group has made its first step towards charging readers for digital content with the release of a new iPad application. A "daily edition" of the Telegraph newspaper will be available for download at 5am every morning for a one-off fee of £1.19 or as part of a £9.99 monthly subscription. Print subscribers can access the app for free.

Many papers assess the coalition government's future after the elections - and there are warnings of trouble. The Times and Guardian carry comments by the former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown in which he accuses David Cameron of a breach of faith over the anti-AV campaign, as reported in the 91Èȱ¬'s newspapers review.