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I'm the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

Arianna Huffington is to launch a UK edition of the Huffington Post this summer. The multi-millionaire, who sold Huffington Post to AOL for $315m (Β£195m) in February, Changing Media Summit that the takeover meant she could accelerate plans to hire journalists and create a UK-specific site.

According to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, a senior Met Police officer has denied conspiring with the News of the World to protect its journalists from phone-hacking allegations. Acting Deputy Commissioner John Yates told MPs that claims by Labour MP Chris Bryant had been "materially wrong". He said prosecutors had advised that it was necessary to prove a voicemail message had been intercepted before the phone's owner accessed it. The Crown Prosecution Service has denied defining this "narrow approach".

that economist Diane Coyle has been appointed number two to the new chairman of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Trust, Lord Patten. Coyle, who is already a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ trustee, has been chosen by culture secretary Jeremy Hunt to be the Trust's vice-chairman. A former economics editor of the Independent and Treasury adviser, she is married to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.

MPs have been given the all-clear to tweet in the House of Commons in a shake-up aimed at modernising Parliament, . A report by the Commons Procedure Committee has ruled smartphones and iPads can be used, but MPs' faces must be visible.

Former Archers actor Graham Seed has been named radio broadcaster of the year at the Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards. Seed, who played Nigel Pargetter for 27 years until the character's death in January, is the first actor to receive the honour. The BPG said the award was in recognition of the affection in which Nigel was held by Archers fans, reports the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.

musician turned cosmologist Professor Brian Cox has confirmed his status as one of the hottest properties in television with a double win at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards. ITV1's drama series Downton Abbey and Channel 4's Mo Mowlam biopic Mo are also double winners at the awards to be presented at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, at lunchtime today.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's newspaper review says the conviction of the rapist known as the Night Stalker prompts several newspapers to question Scotland Yard's failure to catch him sooner.

There will be no Media Brief next week. Service resumes on Monday 4 April.

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