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

Ever played the game where you guess how many sweets are in the jar? Imagine having to do it indefinitely and that basically sums up the lives of some poor folks at the Metropolitan police, whose latest estimate of victims in the phone hacking saga has flicked up to 5,795. That’s 2,000 more than previously thought. “It is not possible to give a precise figure…” began Scotland Yard’s statement. And with 11,000 pages of notes to trawl through, we believe them. Then again, if they’d bothered to start doing it five years ago, when they seized all this evidence, they’d have finished by now. (Source: MediaGuardian)

Sticking with the police, they’ve suddenly decided transparency should come at a price. Scotland Yard’s highfalutin’ Income Development Unit has come up with the idea of charging TV producers an “access fee” of £500 a day, plus “a 15 per cent share of any profits from the sale of the show abroad or merchandising”, according to MediaGuardian. Any resources used, such as “bikes, cars, dogs and horses”, would also warrant a charge. Shocked documentary-makers say the charges would be too high. They never had such problems with Leslie Nielsen. (Source: MediaGuardian)

On a more serious note, you probably won’t notice that Match of the Day will be broadcasting from Salford for the first time this Saturday night. So instead of chauffeuring Alan Hansen down to London from Merseyside at the expense of the license payer, the BBC will be shipping the indispensable Gary Lineker up to Manchester. Football editor Andrew Clement reckons they’ll be a bigger “pool of talent” to choose from in the new location for Match of the Day 2, as if the erudite punditry of Robbie Savage could be surpassed. (Source: The Drum)

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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

“The last day of August makes gods of excitable Sky Sports News presenters. If TV needs someone to announce the end of the world but make it sound like the best fun any of us could ever have, it must hand the job to Sky’s Jim White.” Read the full story

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has hit back at claims by Nissan that the programme misled viewers with its “unfair” test drive of the Leaf. Read the full story

To many, possibly even the happy couple themselves, it was a fairytale day. But to newspaper editors across Fleet Street, it was probably equal to a shower storm in the middle of a long drought, as the royal wedding gave some UK newspapers a boost in circulation of up to 25 per cent on Saturday, compared to the previous week. Read the full story

BBC One is fighting an “ongoing battle” to develop and retain the talent that appeals to its wide variety of viewers, according to the man set to take over controlling the channel, Danny Cohen. Read the full story

Virgin Media has announced the beta launch of its first online and mobile TV player, the imaginatively named Virgin Media Player. Read the full story