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Google and Facebook ad swoop, Sky bid, BBC chair contender

Google and Facebook are forecast to take 71% of the UK ad digital display ad market by 2020
Google and Facebook are forecast to take 71% of the UK ad digital display ad market by 2020. Photograph: Google/Facebook

MediaGuardian’s top stories

Google and Facebook to take 71% of UK online ad revenue by 2020

Architect of BBC reforms among candidates to head board he proposed

Formal bid for Sky by Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox thought imminent

Gordon Brown: delay Murdoch Sky takeover till after Leveson part 2

Peru airs news in Quechua, indigenous language of Inca empire, for first time

Charity helping ethnic minority interns loses government funding

Best of the rest

On the set of Netflix’s The Crown at Elstree Studios
On the set of Netflix’s The Crown at Elstree Studios. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

Can Britain’s workforce keep up with film, TV production boom? (Variety)

The Lad Bible publisher launches content agency (Campaign)

News media blame Christie for bill that could devastate newspapers (New York Times)

Channel 4’s Anna Miralis joins Wall to Wall (Broadcast £)

Fears Hungary no longer has neutral newspaper voice after closure of independent daily Népszabadság (Press Gazette)

Channel 4: Disgraced Olympian Louis Smith joins The Jump to win over audiences after ‘mocking Islam’ (Mirror)

And finally …

The David Dickinson Show
The David Dickinson Show. Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

News of the impending launch of streaming service Britbox in the US has prompted Stuart Heritage to ask: “What TV should we be exporting to give a true flavour of the UK?”

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