Christmas spirit lacking at Trinity Mirror

To ease their pain, Trinity Mirror management are offering a "free" Christmas lunch.

Sadly, there's small-print and no turkey. Says a memo: "Staff will be able to choose their lunch from ONE of the following options: chilli con carne with rice; vegetarian chilli con carne with rice; jacket potato with beans; and pie or pasty (with or without baked beans)," adding: "All drinks are excluded from the complimentary service and will need to be paid for."

The Sunday Mirror's head of news Nick Buckley, shared his grumpiness in a tweet. "Have just seen the Mirror's Xmas Day food offerings for staff (me) in office. Am seeking transfer to join Ian Huntley in HMP Wakefield."

...and among some at the Telegraph

Why isn't Sir Terry Wogan among those fielding calls from Telegraph readers for the papers annual charity appeal? One hopes he hasn't asked for a fee for his services. In 2007 he was paid £9000 to laugh at Pudsey the Bear and host its Children in Need coverage. Wogan is paid a good sum to write a column for the Sunday Telegraph — one of the shortest in national newspapers.

Charlie is my darling

To literary agent Ed Victor's Christmas party. Alastair Campbell, Peter Stothard and Alan Yentob were there. Rachel Johnson was signing new columnists for The Lady. Hot topic was, "is Charlie Gilmour a hero"...

It's all new at Reuters

Thomson Reuters has launched its Reuters America newsroom service, providing media outlets with a wider range of products, particularly in sports and entertainment news.

Chris Ahearn, the company's media chief, claims that "for too long, this market was bound by a one-size-fits-all offering".

Er, that would the same one-size-fits-all offering long supplied by Reuters would it?

BBC lambasted for its bias to balance

The BBC has been inundated with complaints about its coverage of student protests last week.

"We had a wide range of contributors both for and against the tuition fee proposal and talked to students and other protesters. We also carried a news conference by the Metropolitan Police Chief. On Thursday and the next days we reported on groups involved and the nature of the demonstrations, on the injuries suffered by police and demonstrators," they say.

Helpfully, they are accused of being both biased for and against the police, and for and against the protesters. I predict a riot