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Today’s headlines
The Guardian
Top Gear’s Clarkson, Hammond and May to make new show for Amazon. P3
Analysis: Forget ‘migrant madness’. This is tabloid media pretence on a massive scale. P7
Al-Jazeera journalists’ trial verdict in Egypt delayed. P24
Serbia lottery boss quits after TV too quick on the draw. P24
Ukraine pilot in court over journalists’ death. P24
BT Sport garners 60,000 viewers through Uefa deal. P28
Obituary: Actor Tom Beard. P37
Daily Telegraph
Top Gear’s Clarkson, Hammond and May to make new show for Amazon. P1, 9
BBC escapes ban on six-figure public sector payoffs. P11. Editorial: P19
Men made biggest gaffes as I was mourning, says Robert Peston. P11
Comment: Amazon’s deal with Jeremy Clarkson shows BBC fee is obsolete. P30
BT to pay back £129m subsidies after broadband take-up soars. P31
Guardian Media Group losses rise to £48.2m after expansion drive. P33
Comment: Chris Froome can help the BBC regain lost personality. S20
Financial Times
Top Gear’s Clarkson, Hammond and May to make new show for Amazon. P1, 20
Personal technology. P12
Analysis: Nintendo – get splatting. P14
Analysis: Nokia Alcatel – groomzilla. P14
Sri Lanka signs up for Google balloon Wi-Fi. P15
Comment: Creativity holds key to HBO closing sky-high Netflix valuation gulf. P16
Samsung unites diverge as rivals gain ground. P16
Google defies ‘right to be forgotten’ demands. P19
Fox and BuzzFeed close in on NBC deals. P19
BT adds 60,000 viewers ahead of sports rollout. P20
WPP and Providence team up to buy sports marketing specialist Chime. P21
The Times
Top Gear’s Clarkson, Hammond and May to make new show for Amazon. P1, 3
Google rejects privacy ruling. P2
Comment: Big-money digital media are biggest threat to the BBC. P3
Diary: media news. P11
BBC escapes ban on six-figure public sector payoffs. P11. Editorial: P19
Feature: Professional video-game players. P21
BT gets a good signal on return to mobile market. P39
Guardian editor’s £150,000 pay gap. P40
Obituary: British comic strip and cartoon agent Peter Knight. P55
The Independent
Come clean about meetings with Rupert Murdoch, George Osborne told. P1, 7
Decoding the Chinese web dissenters. P28
BT gets a good signal on return to mobile market. P59
Feature: Facial recognition software: who will watch the watchers? P61
New Guardian boss spurns bonus deal as losses remain high. P62
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George Osborne asked to reveal if he met Murdoch before BBC cash cut. P6
Jeremy Clarkson and co sign up with Amazon. P7
Comment: How unstoppable Prime revs up to woo customers. P7
Life in brief: Journalist and broadcaster Sir Peter O’Sullevan. P12
Inside Television. P37
Guardian publisher reports £19.2m loss. P46
WPP in talks over £350m Chime deal. P48
Wall Street Journal Europe
Samsung and Sony boost reliance on components. P15
Google appeals French order. P16
Amazon lands Top Gear team. P17
Facebook and Google tighten their grip on mobile ads. P17
Feature: A long-time Mac users falls for Windows 10. P25
Daily Mail
Amazon puts Clarkson and Top Gear pals back on our TV screens. P11
23,000 escape TV licence fee fines. P11
Facebook users spend a fifth of their time on smartphones. P37
Daily Express
Clarkson’s jeer at BBC as trio join ‘new age of TV’. P3
Ministers want BBC to ban six-figure golden handshakes. P9
Cara Delevingne hits back at TV show hosts after awkward interview. P16
BT TV scores with football. P47
The Sun
Top Gear trio join Amazon to launch new car show. P13
Jeremy Kyle show saves neglected kids. P33
TV cleaner Kim Woodburn in talks for Celebrity Big Brother. P35
Howard Ritchie from Capital FM could be new voice of X Factor. P36
Sir Tom Jones and Rob Brydon to join forces for Children in Need concert. P37
Daily Mirror
Strictly Come Dancing bosses fear huge showdown. P3
Jeremy Kyle Show alerts police to neglected children. P4
Former Top Gear hosts sign up for Amazon Prime show. P7
EastEnders star abused over gay storyline. P9
