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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 that it was clear to most people that more Â鶹Éç employees would vote Labour or Lib Dem than Conservative. He also said the Â鶹Éç had been out of touch with public opinion in the recent past and shown leftwing bias on Europe, immigration and Northern Ireland. The paper says he praised much that the Â鶹Éç does, and said its journalists put their commitment to fair-minded reporting above "political affiliations".

The the Â鶹Éç has chosen Huw Edwards to lead its coverage of the Royal wedding. According to "Â鶹Éç sources", the newsreader was favoured over David Dimbleby, the voice of State occasions for several decades, ending a long family tradition. The late Richard Dimbleby commentated on the coronation in 1953 and the funeral of George VI.

The blonde Russian accused of being a spy also worked for the Â鶹Éç, the . Katia Zatuliveter was employed as a researcher on a major documentary in Moscow four months before she was arrested on suspicion of espionage.

ITV and Channel 4 shows such as Coronation Street and The Inbetweeners will soon be available to watch via Sony's PlayStation 3 games consoles for the first time . The broadcasters are following in the footsteps of the Â鶹Éç's iPlayer.

Fans of the Archers will be shocked by the 60th anniversary episode, according to its editor Vanessa Whitburn. a special 30-minute anniversary episode will be broadcast on 2 January and it will "shake Ambridge to the core".

Jeremy Vine is to step down as presenter of Panorama at the end of the year, after four years . The programme is to go without a regular presenter.

Former painter and decorator Matt Cardle was crowned winner of The X Factor last night. Figures out today are expected to show it reached a record audience reports the Â鶹Éç.

The Â鶹Éç's newspaper review says many of the papers lead with the news that the man suspected of a suicide bombing in Sweden on Saturday had links to the UK.

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