In the air: It's a landmark decision for the magazine industry: BSkyB is axing Britain's biggest circulation title, Sky Magazine, which had a peak distribution of nearly eight million a month as recently as two years ago... more
The Guardian's clash with the Met, which threatened to use the Official Secrets Act to reveal its phone-hacking sources, was doubly unfortunate because the paper has another link to the police... more
Although super-injunctions are holding the media and politicians in their thrall, lawyers are wondering how the industry will treat one of their own... more
The end of the weekend has just become bearable again. Into the gap left by Downton Abbey steps TV drama Any Human Heart — starring the original book’s biggest fan... more
Advertising and marketing: The decision to make the Facebook movie — there is none yet about the three other titans of the digital world, Google, Apple or Amazon — is quite a compliment... more
BBC executives spent more than £12,000 of taxpayers' money on a trip to Korea, according to the latest figures on staff expenses revealed today.... more
Media analysis: What a great wheeze it must have seemed to the Government to solve the problems of commercial TV companies and advertisers by suggesting the ban on product placement could be lifted... more
The BBC is an anomaly. It is funded by a completely arbitrary tax the licence fee. Only 41 per cent of the population still think this is an appropriate funding mechanism. Yet, for now, the licence fee is rigorously imposed nonetheless, as I found when I decided it was pointless to pay it since I didn't switch the TV on from one month to the next, except to watch DVDs.... more
Cricket is at the top of a list of sports that may return to terrestrial television as part of a review into which events should be free to watch... more
Veteran journalist Sir Charles Wheeler - one of the BBC's longest serving foreign correspondents - has died from lung cancer at the age of 85.
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TV presenter Holly Willoughby's diving necklines have divided the nation. While the 27-year-old has delighted many fans of ITV's Dancing On Ice, more conservative viewers have called in to protest that the presenter reveals too much of her fulsome figure
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Holly Willoughby has never failed to attract attention and now she is sure to gain a few more admirers. Holly has stripped off for a good cause though - by calling on the public to taking showers in just three minutes in a bid to save water
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It was her husband's big moment. Having just won the Best Actor gong at last night's Royal Television Society awards, an ecstatic Matthew Macfadyen leaned in to give his wife a celebratory kiss. But rather than respond with a loving smooch, Keeley Hawes pulled away
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The stars of ITV's Loose Women managed to pull themselves together – albeit looking somewhat worse for wear - after last night's high-jinks at the Royal Television Awards. Chris Evans' ex-wife Carol McGiffin looked bleary-eyed as she and her colleagues laughed and joked about the previous night's shenanigans, with particular attention to her rowdy antics... more
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