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I'm the Â鶹Éç's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

The the owners of the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail discussed merging their regional newspaper groups this summer. The regional papers would have been controlled by Trinity Mirror. In return, it would have offered cash and some of its shares to Daily Mail and General Trust. Negotiations came to a halt but one source says the "door is still open".

The that footballer Rio Ferdinand has blamed the Â鶹Éç's "Fifa bribes" Panorama programme for helping scupper England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. The Sun says he made the comment on Twitter.

the "reptiles of British journalism" over the failure of England's World Cup bid. "Even a cursory glance at the allegations from the Sunday Times and the Â鶹Éç's Panorama would have warned Downing Street and the Palace that these were not fit people for Britain's leaders to be seen glad-handing".

Â鶹Éç Radio 3 is to throw its entire schedule over to the works of Mozart, playing every work he wrote - and nothing else. The 12-day marathon follows the success of its six days of Beethoven and ten days devoted to Bach .

One million books will be given away free in the UK and Ireland next year for the inaugural World Book Night, reports the Â鶹Éç. Volunteers will hand out 48 copies each of their favourite book from a 25-strong list. A further 40,000 will be distributed by organisers.

The that the Â鶹Éç has confirmed that Jana Bennett is leaving her job as director of Â鶹Éç Vision to join Â鶹Éç Worldwide. She's to become its president, worldwide networks and global iPlayer.

The Â鶹Éç's newspaper review says the loss of England's World Cup 2018 bid goes down very badly with many papers, with a lot of attention focused on the somewhat contrasting reasons for Russia being in the news.

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