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Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.uk Richard Desmond to face MPs if he wins Channel Five bid Express owner's £100m offer for channel, which could change hands tomorrow, is twice that of rivals S4C faces 24% cut in grant Department for Culture, Media and Sport plans staged reduction in £100m support for Welsh-language channel, say sources Radio 4 spurns Blair and Mandelson books Station prefers latest diaries of former Sunderland South MP Chris Mullin for Book of the Week slot in August This week's featured media jobs PEI Media - Editor, Specialist Publications London/permanent/full time AKA Promotions Ltd - Account Manager / Media Planner Buyer North West/permanent/full time Premier PR - Publicist London/permanent/full time For more jobs, career advice and workplace news visit guardianjobs.co.uk Today's headlines The Guardian News of the World pays undisclosed damages to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. P3 MPs to grill Richard Desmond if he buys Channel Five. P14 Microsoft pips Apple with record revenues and $6bn profit. P24 Letters: online prices. P31 Marina Hyde: How the BBC caved into Eamonn Holmes. G2 P2 Foursquare - a brilliant new internet craze, or something more sinister? G2 P5 Interview: actor Tom Hollander. G2 P10 The Independent Apple counts cost of suicides at iPhone factory. P23 Obituary: music writer and broadcaster Robert Sandall. Viewspaper P8 Daily Telegraph Bus adverts for women priests. P2 Writer warns of slump in TV drama. P6 Andy Burnham criticises BBC for taking on unpaid workers. P13 Letters: whose BBC? P23 Obituary: former Woman's Hour editor Wyn Knowles. P31 Pearson buys Brazilian education business. B4 The Times Richard Desmond expected to complete Channel Five deal. P4 War erupts between publishers and agents over profits from ebooks. P17 Digital ads boost New York Times revenue. P40 Pearson buys Brazilian education business. P45 Android slams brake on Apple's phone growth. P47 Obituary: music broadcaster and journalist Robert Sandall. P64 Financial Times Software giant Electronic Arts becomes Premier League's official sports technology partner. P4 Express Newspapers pays libel damages to Palestinian relief charity. P4 Richard Desmond offers £104m for Channel Five. P15 Pearson buys Brazilian education business. P18 Digital ad boost for New York Times. P19 Daily Mail Jamie Oliver's new Channel 4 show - Jamie's Thirty Minute Meals. P9 Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz take part in Top Gear's Star In A Reasonably Priced Car. P11 Keith Chegwin Twitter joke theft row. P21 Andrew Pierce: Why I, as a gay man, abhor TV queens. P29 Is new BBC1 Sherlock Holmes adaptation suggesting Holmes and Watson are gay? P33 BBC1's Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock gets sexy! P50 Daily Express Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz on Top Gear. P3 Coronation Street cat's ashes sold for £700. P9 Conrad Black out of jail. P27 Pearson buys Brazilian education business. P66 The Sun Fan pays £700 for ashes of Coronation Street cat. P7 Tom Cruise's Top Gear drama. P15 BBC1 updates Sherlock Holmes. TVBiz P1 The X Factor contestant sues judges. TVBiz P1 Three new housemates enter Big Brother house. TVBiz P2 Simon Cowell pays for ITV2 documentary about The X Factor runner-up Olly Murs. TVBiz P3 Jamie Oliver to front new 40-episode daily Channel 4 show. TVBiz P4 Daily Mirror Jamie Oliver expected to make £20m from global sales of his new 40-part cookery show. P3 Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz on Top Gear. P7 Call to ban jailed Conrad Black from House of Lords. P9 Coronation Street latest. P16 Daily Star Fans' fury as BBC camps up Sherlock Holmes. P3 Facebook takes over the world. P6 Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz on Top Gear. P8 Psychic claims Big Brother house is haunted. P9 New housemates for Big Brother. P24 And finally ... The new series of The X Factor will try to shed its cheesy image, the Sun reports. Show bosses are 'dumping the usual parade of naff boybands and hair-extension-obsessed divas ... and they have declared war on wannabes whose main talent is for telling sob stories about their tough upbringing'. Rumours that each episode of the new series will be five minutes long are apparently wide of the mark. The Sun TV Biz P2 Also on MediaGuardian.co.uk today New York Times Company returns to growth Publisher of New York Times and Boston Globe says digital ad revenue rose 21% in second quarter Conrad Black released from jail Disgraced peer freed from low-security prison on bail of $2m ahead of court appearance in Chicago PA cuts jobs but partially lifts pay freeze National news agency understood to have reduced staff by about 30, but is reintroducing raises for lower-paid workers Google hits out at FTC's news proposals Search giant makes strongly worded case against government agency's suggestions for tightening law on aggregation Users criticise BBC News redesign The BBC News website aims to engage with its users - who are leaving thousands of complaints - as its new look beds in Facebook reaches 500 million users College-room project that started in Harvard has become world's biggest social network in just six years AOL signs video clips deal with ITN AOL continues its reinvention with agreement that will give it hundreds of news clips to select from each week Bragg: ITV 'taken over by slide rules' Veteran broadcaster says his former employer has been taken over by 'stupid consultancy scheduling' Viral Video Chart Watch an Alicia Keys-style tribute to the Welsh town of Newport in our rundown of the top online clips Media Talk Will RTL sell Five to Richard Desmond? 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