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		<title>Three jobs go at Shoreham as Johnston Press cuts continue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Shoreham Herald in East Sussex is the latest local paper to be hit by the job cuts currently raging across the industry.
Holdthefrontpage reports that the edition editor, sport editor and entertainment editor have all lost their jobs in recent weeks - three seemingly vital roles. This follows major job cuts across parent company Johnston [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/3928</link>
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		<title>Who ate all the Piers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Sky+ electronic programme guide lists the following at 10.35 tonight: &#8220;The Dark Side of Fame with Pies&#8230;&#8221;
Which is very cruel on the rather portly Mr Morgan, presenter of the said programme. By the way, have I mentioned that he owes me two grand?
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		<link>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/greycardigan/2008/10/who-ate-all-the-piers/</link>
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		<title>Independent drops media supplement after four years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years after the Independent launched a seperate media pull-out on Mondays in direct competition with The Guardian - the supplement has been dropped in favour of a six-page media section merged into business.
Then editor Simon Kelner launched the supplement as a 24-page-section covering all aspects of the media which was intended as a vehicle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/3926</link>
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		<title>RTL set for ITV bid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After announcing 1,000 job cuts and BSkyB being forced to sell down its share in the company, things could be looking up for ITV.
RTL, the owner of Five, has been given the go-ahead by its parent company Bertelsmann to bid for the company, with the RTL chief executive being given more than £1bn for European [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/3924</link>
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		<title>Sir Trevor McDonald to leave News at Ten, again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sir Trevor McDonald is to leave ITN&#8217;s News at Ten for a second time, according to The People.
McDonald left News At Ten in 2005 after 32 years with ITN, but was brought in at the beginning of the year to help boost the profile of the return of ITN&#8217;s News at Ten.
His return was never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/3923</link>
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		<title>Tina Brown launches news aggregation website The Daily Beast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Tatler editor Tina Brown has launched her new online project, The Daily Beast.
The site is password protected, but PaidContent.org had a chat with Brown ahead of today’s launch about what to expect.
The site is aiming to be a &#8220;one-stop news shop&#8221;, mixing aggregation with original content - and takes the name of the mythical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/3922</link>
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		<title>European commissision moves to block Channel 4 handout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government&#8217;s proposed £14m handout to help Channel 4 in the digital switchover to fulfil its public service broadcasting (PSB) commitments could be banned by the European commission, reports Media Guardian.
European competition commissioner Neelie Kroes wrote a letter to foreign secretary David Miliband suggesting that Channel 4 had enough money to pay for the digital [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/3921</link>
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		<title>Tory attack on C4 Dispatches journalist looks like nitpicking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An undercover reporter from Channel 4 has come under fire from the Conservatives after she joined a club for Tory donors as part of a Dispatches this week nto party funding.
She made two monthly payments of £167 to Team 2000, a club for Tory backers contributing £2,000 a year, as part of her investigations for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/editor/2008/10/06/tories-attack-on-c4-dispatches-journalist-looks-like-nitpicking/</link>
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		<title>Welsh celebrities back NUJ&#8217;s campaign to keep Big Issue Cymru in Wales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NUJ has got celebrity backing for its campaign to keep production of The Big Issue Cymru in Wales.
Press Gazette broke the story last month that the editor and designer on the weekly magazine are facing redundancy and production was moving to Big Issue Scotland, with only the staff writer remaining in Wales to produce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/3918</link>
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		<title>Broadcast journalism student scores scoop with Nazi initiation ceremony</title>
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Well done to University of Gloucestershire broadcast journalism student Natalie Sutton who secured a scoop with the BBC yesterday with her video footage of a student intiation ceremony involving students downing pints of beer with carrier bags over their heads directed by another student in Nazi garb.



It&#8217;s been followed up absolutely everywhere today - proving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/3917</link>
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