Media Brief
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| 10:50 UK time, Monday, 22 February 2010
As the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s media correspondent, I cover the personalities, politics and ethics of the media, as well as creative, business, technology and legal issues. This is my summary of what's going on.
Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan won the best acting awards at the Baftas, The Hurt Locker wins six of the rest.
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The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Trust has spent £3.2m on leasing and refurbishing its new headquarters, after rejecting space in the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s own buildings, according to the Sunday Times. The governing body said it needed "physical separation" to protect its independence and the move was part of wider changes in the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ property portfolio. This week the National Audit Office will report on the rebuilding of Broadcasting House. It is expected to reveal a significant overspend.
Fiona Armstrong and Julia Somerville began work last week as the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News Channel presenters, as part of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s plan to recruit older women newsreaders. But Time Walker in his Mandrake column in the Sunday Telegraph says they are only on 30-day contracts. The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ won't comment on individual contracts.
EMI has broken its silence over the future of the Abbey Road studios and says they're not for sale.
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is reported to have changed its royal death procedures. The Mail on Sunday says five senior members will no longer trigger an automatic interruption of normal broadcasts when they die. The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ and Buckingham Palace have not commented:
A record 16.6 million people saw the live EastEnders episode, in which Archie Mitchell's killer revealed herself.
A Government report is expected to say that children are being sexualised by computer games, and that airbrushed photographs in magazines should carry a health warning, to prevent insecurity in young girls.
David Cameron has said the Conservatives will clamp down on irresponsible advertising to children.
What's left off the Government's Digital Britain report? And what's happened to a Conservative committee's report on the creative industries? Steve Hewlett in MediaGuardian says Labour's media plans are in disarray and the Tory report has foundered over infighting over Greg Dyke's plans to abolish the licence fee.
The accusations of Gordon Brown's bullying dominate the papers.
