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I'm the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has announced in a press release that its director of marketing, communications and audiences, Sharon Baylay, is to leave the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½. This is following Tuesday's announcement that the deputy director general Mark Byford is being made redundant. She too will not be replaced. Peter Salmon, director of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ North, and Lucy Adams, head of people, are to leave the executive board but will keep their jobs. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ staff have been told of the changes this morning in an email from the director-general Mark Thompson.

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has announced that its director of marketing communications and audiences, Sharon Bayley, is to leave the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, following yesterday's announcement that the deputy director general Mark Byford is being made redundant. The Sharon Baylay is on a salary of £281,000 and speculates she could be in line for an exit deal of up to £327,000.

The [subscription required] the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s creative director Alan Yentob may leave too, as part of Mark Thompson's move to streamline the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s top management. It says Jana Bennett, the director of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Vision, is understood to have been in talks with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Worldwide. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has no comment on the suggestions.

The that the National Union of Journalists has warned that anger among ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ staff at the "massive payoff" given to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s departing deputy director general, Mark Byford, is likely to lead to strike action over pensions changes at the corporation.

The John Simpson has criticised Mark Thompson for saying that the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ was once very left-wing. He is reported to have said at the Cheltenham Literature Festival that when he was the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s political editor, "We were as straight as a dye then and I think it is absolutely as straight as a dye now."

Howard Jacobson has become the first comic novelist to win the Man Booker Prize. The it is a surprise win because "a comic novel has never satisfied the high-minded tastes of previous judges of the Man Booker prize" before.

As the papers were being printed, the impending rescue of the first of the 33 miners trapped underground in Chile for weeks was grabbing attention, as the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Newspaper review shows.

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