Today's media stories from the papers

Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.uk BBC Trust's Sir Michael Lyons reaches out to Jeremy Hunt Chairman of corporation's governing body said to have had 'very positive' private meetings with minister who promised to scrap it Heggessey leaves Talkback Thames Former BBC1 controller departing production business after five years. Chief operating officer Sara Geater to take interim role Daily Mail shuffles features executives as Mail Online considers LA office Leaf Kalfayan made executive editor of features, with senior posts also shifting at news and on Femail section This week's featured media jobs Sky - Head of Networking Scheduling London/permanent/full time Quarto Group - Children's Book Editor London/permanent/full time Greenpeace - Web Producer London/temp/full time For more jobs, career advice and workplace news visit guardianjobs.co.uk Today's headlines The Guardian Zimbabwe gets independent daily newspaper. G2, P2 Veteran reporter Helen Thomas has had to quit. G2, P12-13 The Independent Seinfeld ended 12 years ago, but still earns $2.7bn. P14-15 Local TV and faster broadband unveiled. P22 BBC Watchdog enrages electricians' register. P39 Social networks overtake Google in UK web hits. P42 Improved BT pay deal fails to head off ballot. P44 Mobile telcos lose roaming challenge. P44 We must consider the human cost of the gadgets we buy. Viewspaper, P12. Teens are maligned by the music business. Viewspaper, P13 Daily Telegraph Broadband pledge to countryside by minister. P10 Can Adrian Chiles win the World Cup for ITV? P30 BT strike looms as union rejects pay deal. Business, P2 Mobile operators lose EU calls deal. Business, P2 The Times Chinese internet addicts escape detention camp. P34 Union rejects BT offer. P41 Obituary: Journalist Alan Ruddock. P58 Financial Times Jeremy Hunt outlines lighter-touch regulation for broadcasters. P4 BT's hopes of averting a strike receding. P18 Foxconn to revise factory town model. P21 Wall Street Journal Europe Apple strives for global share. P19 Daily Mail BT peace offering. P72 Daily Express Britain's Got Talent coverage. P9 The Sun Jeremy Hunt 'to create 600,000 web jobs'. P2 Strike threate grows at BT. P45 Big Brother coverage. TV supplement Daily Mirror Strictly Come Dancing coverage. P3 The Chinese knock-off gadgets. P28-29 Daily Star Big Brother coverage. P3 Beeb say no £2m deal for Christine Bleakley. P11 And finally ... The Independent lets everyone know what it thinks of all this internet nonsense with some carefully-placed quotation marks. Telegraph editor Will Lewis left after bust-ups about his Euston project - the project charged with "monetising" the Telegraph's "content", as the Indy puts it. And now the group's well-liked and equally well-connected chief information officer Paul Cheesbrough has left too, taking up a job at News International instead. "A source familiar with the Telegraph's brave new world said of the project: 'It's the final nail in that particular debacle." The Independent, P13 Also on MediaGuardian.co.uk today Paul Cheesbrough leaves Telegraph The group's chief information officer is leaving to take the same role at the rival company News International World Cup 2010: millions of women will watch – but the ads will aim at men England games will attract some of the year's biggest female audiences – but sky-high rates mean female-focused ads won't follow Sport magazine to mark World Cup with biggest ever issue Free weekly sports magazine bumps up to 96 pages, more than 40 of them advertising, a year after being bought by UTV Media Apple's iAd iPhone advertising platform claims $60m in pre-launch bookings Deals for advertising on iPhone and iPod Touch apps represent almost half of forecast US mobile ad spending, Apple says BSkyB wins £318m settlement from HP The sum is a final settlement over 'woeful' contract with the Hewlett-Packard subsidiary Electronic Data Systems David Beckham signed by Yahoo Former England captain to be web firm's 'global sports ambassador', fronting ads and providing exclusive content for World Cup British Comedy awards move to C4 Broadcaster hopes Jonathan Ross will host ceremony, which leaves ITV after 20 years Greenslade: Why gag Helen Thomas? Greenslade: White House reporter resigns after being filmed telling rabbi that Jews should 'get the hell out of Palestine' Waitrose wins Marketing Society prize Marketing Society's grand prix goes to supermarket chain, while government anti-obesity campaign takes best new brand TV ratings: Father & Son launches with 5.3m viewers The new ITV Dougray Scott drama won the 9pm hour and continues for another three nights