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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Matt Wells

Media Talk for Friday February 23

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It had to happen. Usually it's Sky or ITN, but this year it was the BBC that cried "fix" over the Royal Television Society's annual journalism awards. The juries were stacked against them, the corporation complained. We pick over the plaintive emails (voiced in our best What the Papers Say style!) with Guardian assistant editor Janine Gibson and magazine publisher David Hepworth. We also talk to Deborah Turness, the head of ITV News at ITN, recipient of the largest number of gongs.

David Hepworth is on hand to dissect the fallout from the latest magazine ABC figures, which showed serious declines in circulation for men's magazines. The picture is a bit more complicated than the press coverage suggests, David says.

Stephen Brook, press correspondent for MediaGuardian.co.uk, fills us in on developments at the Independent where moves to elicit voluntary redundancies are afoot, and Sarfraz Manzoor has an interview with Christine Langan, Oscar-nominated producer of The Queen - the full version of which appears in Media Guardian on Monday.

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