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

The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ has announced in a press release that its director of marketing, communications and audiences, Sharon Baylay, is to leave the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳. This is following Tuesday's announcement that the deputy director general Mark Byford is being made redundant. She too will not be replaced. Peter Salmon, director of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ North, and Lucy Adams, head of people, are to leave the executive board but will keep their jobs. ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ staff have been told of the changes this morning in an email from the director-general Mark Thompson.

The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ has announced that its director of marketing communications and audiences, Sharon Bayley, is to leave the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, following yesterday's announcement that the deputy director general Mark Byford is being made redundant. The Sharon Baylay is on a salary of £281,000 and speculates she could be in line for an exit deal of up to £327,000.

The [subscription required] the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s creative director Alan Yentob may leave too, as part of Mark Thompson's move to streamline the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s top management. It says Jana Bennett, the director of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Vision, is understood to have been in talks with ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Worldwide. The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ has no comment on the suggestions.

The that the National Union of Journalists has warned that anger among ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ staff at the "massive payoff" given to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s departing deputy director general, Mark Byford, is likely to lead to strike action over pensions changes at the corporation.

The John Simpson has criticised Mark Thompson for saying that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ was once very left-wing. He is reported to have said at the Cheltenham Literature Festival that when he was the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s political editor, "We were as straight as a dye then and I think it is absolutely as straight as a dye now."

Howard Jacobson has become the first comic novelist to win the Man Booker Prize. The it is a surprise win because "a comic novel has never satisfied the high-minded tastes of previous judges of the Man Booker prize" before.

As the papers were being printed, the impending rescue of the first of the 33 miners trapped underground in Chile for weeks was grabbing attention, as the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Newspaper review shows.

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