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I'm the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

The Times and Sunday Times will start charging for access to their websites and other digital services from June. The cost will be £1 a day, or £2 for a week's subscription. Rupert Murdoch announced last summer that his newspapers would start charging for online content. The industry is divided over the wisdom of the move .

The former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev, who last year bought the Evening Standard in London, has agreed to buy the Independent and Independent On Sunday for a nominal £1. It's not yet known if the editors will stay, or whether the titles will go free and the .

The that sports bodies are threatening legal action over Ofcom's imminent announcement that it will force Sky to cut the price it charges rivals for sport content.

Several newspaper groups have been chosen ahead of ITN and STV to run three publicly-funded pilot news services on ITV. The Government proposed the services - in Scotland, Wales and the north-east of England - after ITV said it could no longer afford to provide regional news and the .

The prospect of strikes by rail staff and further action by British Airways cabin crew dominates Friday's papers as .

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