If you want tabloid tittle-tattle on your television, then look no further than Channel 5′s “unashamedly populist” news bulletins. Read the full story

Footage running up to Muammar Gadaffi’s bloody end was not too graphic to broadcast, Ofcom has ruled, despite hundreds of complaints from viewers. Read the full story

“Of course I would love it to be a million every night but I’ve not been set a target [by Channel 4]. We would all like the numbers to go up but it’s not what this is about.” Read the full story

Feeling chilly? That may be because hell has frozen over, because today is the day that the Daily Mail finally admits that its attack on ‘Winterval’ is a load of old cobblers. Printed in its corrections page today the paper said: “We are happy to make clear that Winterval did not rename or replace Christmas.” Hooray for common sense. (Source: Minority Thought)

Channel 4 is reshaping its Dispatches programme. The series will adapt to half hour shows, incorporating more social media, with hour-long shows reserved for special editions. The changes will offer the Dispatches team “greater flexibility” in the stories they cover and how they cover them, according to the channel’s head of news, Dorothy Byrne. (Source: journalism.co.uk)

Max Mosley’s campaign to punish the News of the World for its ‘Nazi sex-romp’ story in 2008 has claimed another victory, this time in French courts. The NoW’s publisher will pay £32,000 in costs and damages after being found guilty of violating the former Formula 1 president’s privacy. Mosley’s lawyer claimed the story had “devastated” his client’s life. He failed to make any mention of how stretching the story out for another three years with constant court cases for financial recompense has affected Mosley’s life, however. (Source: MediaGuardian)

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The winner of (Rupert Murdoch-owned) News Limited’s in-house journalism award has upped the game considerably. Simon Eroro took the prize for securing an interview with secretive Free West Papua militants. To get the scoop, Eroro had to cross rivers and jungles and get circumcised with bamboo sticks as part of a cleansing ceremony. Next year’s entrants are already plotting which limbs they can do without to satiate Murdoch’s news interests, but at least on this occasion Eroro’s reportage had a positive impact on Papua New Guinea. (Source: The Telegraph)

Channel 4 is setting up a training scheme for young investigative journalists, to inspire fresh faces to get into long-form current affairs programming instead of “glamorous” roles in comedy and entertainment. Chief exec David Abraham has thrown his weight behind the idea, suggesting that the allegedly dead days of journalism being a “noble” pursuit need to be dug up from the grave. (Source: The Independent)

Pats on backs and congratulatory cheers all round at the National Union of Journalists. The union has won a case demanding almost £200,000 for former Daily and Sunday Sport staff made redundant when the paper went bust last year. 62 members of staff will now be able to claim up to £3,200 each. (Source: Press Gazette)

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Channel 4 will sponsor the Guardian‘s new iPad app for six months when it launches in October. Read the full story

Was Channel 4 right to screen last night’s harrowing documentary, Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, which exposed atrocious war crimes but was deeply disturbing for viewers?  Read the full story

ITV and Channel 4 are set to become the first commercial television channels to offer an on-demand service on Sony’s Playstation3 games console, when they launch later this week. Read the full story