Media Brief
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| 10:33 UK time, Tuesday, 20 July 2010
I'm the Â鶹Éç's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on. Some content may need a subscription.
The five trade unions at the Â鶹Éç have threatened a strike over changes to its pension scheme. It could start in September.
Melvyn Bragg has taken the South Bank Show Awards to Sky Arts, who he says are "really starting to punch above their weight" .
The Â鶹Éç technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones analyses conflicting figures on the Times 'great paywall experiment'. The paper's former media editor Dan Sabbagh has been told that just 15,000 people have signed up to pay for online access, but 12,500 are paying for the iPhone app.
The the Times has lost 90 per cent of its online traffic.
Should the TV licence fee be cut? And should the National Audit Office be given full access to the Â鶹Éç accounts? Steve Hewlett of The Media Show and John Whittingdale, chair of the Culture Media & Sport Committee, .
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The former owner of the Daily Telegraph Conrad Black has been granted bail pending an appeal against his fraud conviction reports the Â鶹Éç.
The Â鶹Éç newspaper review says David Cameron's flagship policy, the "big society", is put under the microscope in several papers.
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• Rory Cellan Jones | Â鶹Éç | The Times paywall: Hit or miss?
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• Â鶹Éç | Conrad Black is granted bail pending appeal
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