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Today’s headlines
The Guardian
Spare Rib magazine goes online. P7
Apple, iPhone bug affects watch, iPad and Macs. P10
BBC defends reality show involving poor, dubbed ‘Hunger Games’. P15
Burma journalists face parliamentary curbs after MPs caught napping. P16
Angolan journalist given suspended sentence jail term for defaming army chiefs. P19
Obituary: Actor Terry Sue-Patt
Daily Telegraph
Inquiry into TV licence fee collection threats. P8
BBC seeks disabled weather presenter. P8
BBC ‘has banned subject of drugs on children’s television’. P11
Analysis: Sky and BT in their own cup final for football fans’ cash. B2
Google in payments challenge to Apple. B3
Financial Times
Chipmakers agree biggest tech deal since dotcom boom. P1, 14
Personal technology. P12
Google and GoPro aim for virtual reality. P15, 19
Shazam looks to tune into display images. P15
Comment: Independent news sites need more than ads to avoid being bought up. P16
Lenovo brushes aside subsidised content. P18
The Times
BBC seeks disabled weather presenter. P3
Ex-Mirror Group boss gave £150,000 to Labour election campaign. P13
BBC rejects Top Gear ‘Falklands’ complaints. P23
TV chiefs tell us to take a break from binge viewing. P37
How Grand Theft Auto reveals our bias against growth. P41
Microchip makers to team up in $37bn merger. P45
BuzzFeed group aims to ‘build out’ with flotation. P45
Media and unions ‘made City Link nightmare worse’. P49
Obituary: Actor Nigel Terry. P56
The Independent
BBC rejects Top Gear ‘Falklands’ complaints. P16
BuzzFeed plans flotation. P17
Comment: I’ve seen the future of the media – crass, sexist and bigger than Beckham. P33
Obituary: Publisher of trade periodicals Lindsey Greig. P52
Obituary: Actor Grace Lee Whitney. P52
Google goes all-out to rival Apple. P57
i
Life in brief: Star Trek actress Grace Lee Whitney. P12
BuzzFeed plans float to boost expansion. P17
BBC searches for disabled weather presenter. P20
Journalist tricked news groups into publishing dubious research. P21
Inside Television. P39
Google has Apple products in sight. P50
Wall Street Journal Europe
Chinese tech firms aim to stay at home. P15
Chipmaker Avago to pay $37bn for rival. P15
Google unveils new rival to Apple pay. P17
EU defends its proposal for single digital market. P17
Latest LG Android smartwatch trails Apple. P25
Daily Mail
Culture secretary praises free press. P2
Ephraim Hardcastle on media. P19
Ex-editor of the The Lady to become paragliding instructor. P40
ITV ends talks to buy US production giant Weinstein. P75
Daily Express
Storm over disabled BBC weather host ad. P10
The Sun
Video blogger Zoella emerges as favourite to host The Xtra Factor. P3
Britain’s Got Talent coverage. P7
Call for the people to decide UK’s Eurovision entry. P23
Controversial TV show where strangers marry. P25
Mylenne Klass to host new ITV cooking contest. P33
BBC Trust rejects complaints about Top Gear number plate. P34
Britain’s Hardest Grafter dubbed BBC2’s answer to ‘poverty porn’. P34
Daily Mirror
Jimi Mistry didn’t know Coronation Street character would be killed off. P9
One Direction party girl to tell all on reality show. P21
Google after net shoppers. P22
Former Radio 1 DJ gets nine-month suspended sentence for keeping indecent child photos. P23
BBC Trust rejects complaints about Top Gear number plate. P31
BT aims for Euro league of its own. P60
Daily Star
Big Brother coverage. P5
Britain’s Got Talent coverage. P9
Uproar at BBC Hunger Games show for poor. P15
Top Gear number plate cleared by BBC Trust inquiry. P15
