On this week's Media Talk, we'll be examining the latest libel award in the Madeline McCann case. On Thursday, Robert Murat was awarded £600,000 from a number of British newspapers after various unproven claims were made against him. We hear from leading media lawyer Dan Tench , to learn more about this unprecedented case.
Also in the show, it's more doom and gloom for Newspapers as Trinity Mirror, Newsquest, and DMGT announced a sharp decline in advertising for the last couple of months. Share prices have also fallen across the sector so could this lead to the closure of titles in the future? Matt Wells asks expert Lorna Tilbian from Numis Securities what can be done to increase revenues.
Jeff Jarvis, our favourite blogger, has some fairly radical views on how to save newspapers which involve handing over the work load to companies like Google. He thinks newspapers should stick what they do best - journalism - and stop doing things that others do better like selling advertising, and developing websites. Why do hundreds of newspapers try and craft their own versions of similar website, when Google or Yahoo could do it for them?
We've also got your amusing poems about the BBC.
Joining Matt Wells are Owen Gibson, John Plunkett and Gareth McLean.
