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Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.uk The X Factor producer to make staff cuts and boost investment Talkback Thames plans to re-invigorate business after the cancellation of police drama The Bill War breaks out between BT and Sky over pricing of Sky Sports channels No sooner did BT reveals plan to undercut Sky's own prices by £10 a month than Sky raised its own prices, driving up the wholesale cost to BT and potentially forcing it to provide the channels at a loss Ofcom prepares for cuts and job losses Budget review likely to result in 'significant reduction', says chief executive Ed Richards, who is taking 10% pay cut 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 Al-Qaida launches online magazine. P1 Men's Hour comes to BBC Radio 5 Live. P3 Times and Sunday Times beginning charging for online news. P6 Pakistan plans curb on media coverage of bombings. P18 China funds English TV news channel in push for soft power. P24 War erupts over sports channel pricing as BT undercuts Sky. P26 Viewpoint: to take on Sky is a big fight - even if you're BT. P27 Amazon pays $110m for online retailer Woot. P28 Profile: Pinewood chairman Michael Grade. P29 The battle for the soul of breakfast television. G2, P2 Comic superheroes get a makeover. G2, P10 Interview: Lauren Laverne. G2, P12 Elisabeth Mahoney on Chris Evans. G2 P24 John Crace on Southland on More 4. G2, P25 Your next box set: the A Team. G2, P27 The Independent William Hague on Twitter. P5 Diary: ITV's efforts to come up with a new name for GMTV. P15 Meryl Streep to play Margaret Thatcher on screen. P21 BBC's new pay policy could spark media war. P22 Editor's murder "approved by Rwandan president". P29 BT locks horns with Sky over Sky Sports. P39 BT and Sky go to war. P41 Microsoft's iPhone killer laid to rest. P42 Leading article: confusion over the BBC's salary plans. Viewspaper, P2 Daily Telegraph BBC likely to cause controversy with fictional drama about the Pope. P6 BBC tennis commentator apologises for "puppy fat" remark about Laura Robson. P7 Footballer rumour "out of control" on the internet. P7 BBC's £12,000 for lawyers to keep pay secret. P15 BBC Radio 5 Live to broadcast Men's Hour. P16 Meryl Street to play Margaret Thatcher. P18 Finns get legal right to broadband line. P19 Al-Qaeda launches English newspaper. P20 Comment: don't burn Jamie Oliver over school dinners. P25 Obituary: photographer Jim Marshall. P33 New Channel 4 religious strand. P34 Comment: the BT-Sky Sports price war. B2 BT kicks of Sky Sports channels price war. B3 The Times BBC apologies for tennis "puppy fat" comment. P4 Meryl Streep to play Margaret Thatcher. P19 BBC to broadcast Men's Hour on BBC Radio 5 Live. P19 Ofcom cuts pay. P20 Al-Qaeda launches online magazine. P45 Divorce lawyers dig the dirt on Facebook. P46 Carl Icahn increases stake in Hollywood studio Lions Gate. P48 China launches global English language news channel. P48 Microsoft scraps smartphone. P51 BT-Sky price war. P55 Broadband declared legal right for Finns. P55 Financial Times Pressure grows on BBC to be more open. P4 Nick Clegg's repeal website proves big hit. P4 Sponsors get a kick out of World Cup. P10 Google buys travel tech company ITA Software for $770m. P22 Advertising luminary Alex Bogusky moves on. P22 E-reader market cuts prices again. P22 Apple to become second-largest provider of p[aid on-demand films in US by end of 2010. P22 Wall Street Journal Europe Microsoft kills off "social" phone Kin after less than two months. P18 Google buys online flight search software company ITA for $700m. P18 Alex Bogusky leaves holding company MDC Partners. P31 Mediaset escalates price war with Ness Corp's Sky Italia. P31 Daily Mail BBC Radio 5 Live unveils Men's Hour. P5 BBC apologies for tennis player "puppy fat" comment. P9 Listening to sport on the radio "as risky to drivers as drinking". P13 Diary: when Richard Desmond met Dame Marjorie Scardino. P19 Jan Moir is enjoying the BBC's tennis coverage. P37 Why Google pays its gay staff more. P41 BT launches Sky Sports price war. P83 Times begins charging for website. P85 Daily Express BBC 6 Music could be saved. P7 BBC pundit in "puppy fat" tennis gaffe. P9 The Sun Johnny Depp front runner to play the doctor in big screen version of Doctor Who. P3 James Cordon's company JK Corden made profits of nearly £500,000. P3 Meryl Streep to play Margaret Thatcher. P3 Emma Crosby axed from GMTV. P24 BBC pay mutiny. P33 Top cop prompts fury by comparing locals to guests on Jeremy Kyle Show. P46 Artist creates screen portraits with £5 iPad app. P47 Radio 5 Live launches Man's Hour. P48 Brenda Fricker to return to Casualty. TVBiz, P1 Dizzee Rascal throws tantrum during TV talent hunt. TVBiz, P1 Big Brother latest. TVBiz, P2 Ricky Gervais backs Steve Carell's decision to quit the US version of The Office. TVBiz, P4 Hollyoaks to feature transgender storyline. TVBiz, P4 BT-Sky price war. Daily Mirror Kat and Alfie Moon to return to EastEnders. P3 BBC commentator sorry for tennis "puppy fat" comment. P4 Sports fans furious after BBC online switches from Andy Murray to Hairy Bikers. P4 Legal move to keep BBC pay secret. P9 Nick Clegg's reform website gets more than it bargained for. P10 Kate Garraway offered new role on GMTV. P11 Meryl Streep to play Margaret Thatcher on screen. P27 Keeley Hawes on critics of her Ashes to Ashes role. P32 BT pays penalty in Sky price war. P63 Daily Star Peter Andre to return to I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!? P1 Meryl Streep to play Margaret Thatcher. P3 Al-Qaida starts own magazine. P12 BBC stars have to do their own make-up. P13 Brian Dowling set to return to Big Brother. P28 Endemol comes up with successor to Big Brother - gameshow in a giant house. P47 And finally ... Chris Evans has auctioned off his £15m collection of Ferraris in aid of Children in Need. But only for the day, we should add. The Radio 2 star raised £250,000 with his annual fund-raising effort in which the lucky donors get to drive one of his seven supercars. Let's hope they have, er, a wheely great time. THE SUN, P45 Also on MediaGuardian.co.uk today Murdoch titles charge for online news News International to charge for online access to Times and Sunday Times content from today. By Mark Sweney Guardian Activate 2010 Guardian Activate summit is back with an extra-special array of speakers primed to tackle the challenge of changing the world through the internet BBC Trust bows to pressure to publish more details of star presenters' salaries Trust orders corporation to publish salaries in dramatic u-turn as senior executives take 8.5% pay cut for next two years Big Brother creator linked to Five bid John De Mol understood to be working with Greek broadcaster Antenna on a joint bid submitted to owner RTL Julie Burchill joins the Independent Controversial columnist will write exclusively for Independent, although she says she 'doesn't exactly agree' with all its stances Award-winning Diesel campaign banned ASA bans 'Be Stupid' ads from appearing on posters, saying that billboards are likely to be seen by children Getty takes five prizes at press photographer awards Guardian wins three and Reuters two while the Times' David Bebber lands photograph of the year Llewellyn web talkshow headed for Dave Former Red Dwarf star's 'intimate and off-the-wall chatshow', Carpool, features him driving guests around People prefer print – and free online Two surveys make depressing reading for newspaper executives keen to make money from the online audience Mexican journalist and wife shot dead Two gunmen shot dead Mexican journalist Juan Francisco Rodríguez Ríos and his wife, María Elvira Hernández Galeana