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I'm the Â鶹Éç's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what you need to know.

The Â鶹Éç's global news audience has risen to 241 million despite the loss of 20 million shortwave listeners. The shortfall has been made up on TV and the internet.

Ed Vaizey, the new minister for media and the arts, has confirmed that the Government won't freeze the licence fee under the current settlement. .

The there were protests outside Broadcasting House yesterday over the planned closure of Â鶹Éç 6Music and the Asian Network.

The News of the World sting exposing the Duchess of York - "Fergie 'sells' Andy for £500k" - was in the public interest, unlike others recently,

of the old Sunday Times Insight team questions the recent spate of exposes:

The several papers question whether ministers can protect front-line services, while cutting public spending by £6bn.

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