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

Channel 5 owner Richard Desmond would have been forgiven for doing a poznań of his own this week, after Manchester City and Manchester United crashed out of the Champion’s League. Read the full story

Desmond gleefully plucks legs off C5 news spider

Channel 5′s news team are up in arms at changes to the its output. A proposed relaunch, due next year, will see job cuts and reporters expected to edit their own footage. All editors and newsroom staff are set to be made redundant, emphasising Richard Desmond’s commitment to destroying the livelihoods of journalists. (Source: MediaGuardian)

More men than women in journalism, notices Guardian

The Guardian has been doing a bit of digging on the balance of gender in journalism. Between the 13 June to 8 July, a team jotted down the bylines of articles in seven daily newspapers to find that the average percentage of female reporters is 22.6 per cent – a miniscule number compared to male journalists, who made up 77.4 per cent of the bylines. The Guardian has made the data available to download for any would-be graph-makers, so feel free to have a fiddle, as it were. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Hello NoW, I’m John Cleese, can I have some money?

Good to see John Cleese cracking some jokes as opposed to promoting car mechanics fixing your “faulty showers” (shudder). Talking to Radio 4′s Mark Lawson, he said he was disappointed that his phone hasn’t been hacked by the News of the World. “I live in hopeful expectation because I would love to get money out of that bunch of bastards,” he eloquently added. We’ve all got to eat, I suppose. (Source: Press Gazette)

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

Northern & Shell says its pre-tax profit tripled to £30.3m last year, reports Press Gazette. Read the full story

Richard Desmond is considering selling off his four newspaper publications in order to support his vision for Channel 5, and Barclays Capital has given any prospective buyer something to think about, predicting that his papers are set to nearly double thier profits in the space of two years. Read the full story

Richard Desmond’s brainchild OK! TV, the celebrity chat show manifestation of his gossip magazine that aims to invigorate the embattled broadcaster he bought last year, has been launched. Read the full story

Richard Desmond, the owner of Channel 5, is using his portfolio of gossip magazines in an attempt to turn around the fortunes of the broadcaster by replacing teatime show ‘Live from Studio 5′ with OK! TV, a new programme to exploit the brand of his celebrity magazine. Read the full story