Media Brief
I'm the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ'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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ multimedia newsroom; and the director of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service's English Networks and News, Gwyneth Williams.
Caroline Thomson, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's chief operating officer, has said the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ'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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Trust and negotiated the current licence fee settlement.
https://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article7147852.ece
The Guardian reports that Jeremy Bowen, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Middle East editor, has criticised the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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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