Budding magazine journalists are being given the chance to prove themselves, a la The Apprentice, in a new programme devised by Bauer Media and set to be broadcast on ITV2. Read the full story

ITV and Sky are “doing very little to support British film”, according to a government-commissioned report urging the broadcasters to invest more into the UK cinema industry. Read the full story

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

Is the end nigh for News Corporation’s dominant position in the UK newspaper market? The company’s third-biggest shareholder, Kevin Holt, is urging chairman Rupert Murdoch to sell off its newspaper portfolio. Holt told the Sunday Telegraph that it’s a “digital world” now, and any competitive advantage newspapers might have had in the past has been “competed away”. (Source: Press Gazette)

WikiLeaks is to halt any new publications as it focuses its efforts on fighting financial blockades and dwindling revenues. Co-founder Julian Assange claims that 95 per cent of the website’s revenues have been “destroyed” by banks blocking funds, and warned that if the bans are not lifted by the new year then WikiLeaks could be no more. Batman never had these problems, eh? (Source: MediaGuardian)

As if followers of English football needed any more bad news, ITV is close to securing the rights of both the FA Cup and England international games until 2014. Fortunately for ITV’s accountants, the broadcaster is set to get a cut-price deal after splashing £245m on the current four-year deal. (Source: MediaGuardian)

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The team behind ITV’s new investigative journalism programme, Exposure, has been left red-faced after it admitted footage of the IRA supposedly shooting down a helicopter with weapons supplied by Muammar Gaddafi was taken from a video game. Read the full story

Broadcasters are being forced to hand over hundreds of hours of footage from the August riots by the Metropolitan Police.

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“It’s a bit like if you were a poet or a writer and then the printing press comes in, you might have thought, ‘oh no, I still want it to be written by a monk,’ and you’re frightened that it’s not written by a monk.” Read the full story

Viewers wanting to catch up on ITV programming online will have to pay for the privilege come January next year, when the broadcaster will implement a micropayment system into its ITV Player. Read the full story