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Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.uk Make or break for BBC's Mark Thompson as he prepares MacTaggart lecture Director general must convince critics he is the right man to lead the corporation through a turbulent period WikiLeaks' Julian Assange in Swedish rape claim furore Stockholm's chief prosecutor makes it clear WikiLeaks founder has no rape charges to answer after hundreds of mistaken stories appear online Fans accuse The X Factor of using Auto-Tune Show accused of deceiving viewers with technology as autotuning row engulfs social networking sites This week's featured media jobs Treasury Today - Graduate Trainee Financial Journalist Kent/permanent/full time Sky Communications International - Account Director/Senior Account Manager Brighton/permanent/full time MTV Networks Europe - Licensing Director, Emerging Markets London/permanent/full time For more jobs, career advice and workplace news visit guardianjobs.co.uk Today's headlines The Guardian Fans suspect The X Factor of using Auto-Tune. P3 Wikileaks founder in web furore over bogus rape claim. P5 Unmasked: racing driver Top Gear calls the Stig. P8 BBC's Mark Thompson prepares to give MacTaggart lecture. P12 Losing his grandson at Blackpool Pleasure Beach was traumatic enough for Peter Preston - and then it went online. P26 Alex Ferguson faces fine for refusing to end BBC feud. Sport P1 Media Guardian Radio 3 controller Roger Wright on BBC pensions unrest and the threat to the Proms. P1 Steve Hewlett: Has Mark Thompson got the credibility to make this year's MacTaggart lecture count? What goes on in a TV controller's head? P3 The Sun's TV critic Ally Ross on the BBC and Big Brother. P4 Mark Thompson is expected to use this year's MacTaggart lecture to launch a vigorous defence of BBC, but where should he start? Edinburgh TV Festival supplement P1 Edinburgh TV Festival organisers pulling out all the stops to ensure Sunday is no sleepy affair. Edinburgh TV Festival supplement P3 After a five-year decline, broadcasters are raising their budgets, but who will benefit from the upturn? Edinburgh TV Festival supplement P4 The Independent Sean O'Grady profiles the man rumoured to be Top Gear's the Stig, whom the BBC want to remain anonymous. P3 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says 'enemies' are to blame for rape claim. P8 Guy Parker, the head of the Advertising Standards Authority, says body is about to get tough on misleading websites. P13 Stephen Glover half-welcomes the proposed parliamentary debate on privacy law. Viewspaper P5 Trinity Mirror execs are bereft of strategic ideas, says Glover. Viewspaper P5 Channel 4's planned Beauty and the Beast programme is 'shocking', says Glover. Viewspaper P5 Daily Telegraph Over 65s turn to Facebook and text messaging to keep in touch. P10 Two Blue Peter presenters refuse to move to Salford with BBC. P10 Woman's allegations over Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. P11 Assange is a 'highly political campaigner with a carefully cultivated image', comments Toby Harnden. P15 The Times ITV confesses to using Auto-Tune gadget to smooth out The X Factor performers' voices. P8 Wikileaks 'warned of trap' before rape claim. P25 Financial Times Wikileaks founder at centre of open and shut case. P4 Mobile operators expect app downloads to become biggest source of income in developed markets within three years. Companies & Markets P1 Daily Mail Vanessa Perroncel, the model at the centre of a media superinjuction in January this year, says privacy actions are going too far. P8 The X Factor fans accuse show of misleading them by making contestants' voices sound better. P9 BBC boss Mark Thompson should move north to Salford as well, says columnist Peter McKay. P17 The mystery over the real-life identity of Top Gear's the Stig may finally be over. P21 Wikileaks boss blames Pentagon for rape smears. P24 Channel 4 in a storm over Beauty and the Beast reality show. P25 BBC chief operations officer Richard Deverell snubs move north. P35 Daily Express Legal battle over book may prove racer is Top Gear's mystery Stig. P5 The X Factor hits a sour note over its 'voice cheat' singing device. P8 The Sun Accounts link racer to the Stig, as BBC try keep identity under wraps. P3 Daily Mirror The X Factor bosses confess they use Auto-Tune gadgets to make singers' voices sound in tune. P1 Stig ID clue in books of stunt driver. P3 Channel 4's new reality programme 'exploits' disfigured person. P20 BBC boss Paul Gaskin quits in row over move north. P20 Daily Star Jonathan Ross is reportedly lining up Prince Harry as the first guest on his new show. P3 Top Gear's Stig unmasked. P15 Fury over Channel 4 Beauty and the Beast show. P19 And finally ... Vanessa Perroncel, the woman at the centre of John Terry's ill-fated superinjunction earlier this year, has said she is against the gagging orders becoming increasingly popular among allegedly philandering footballers. 'I know how expensive it is to take out an injunction, and it's not fair that footballers should be allowed to protect themselves because of their money,' the 33-year-old model is reported as saying. In an interview with the Observer's Polly Vernon , Perroncel tells how she and her lawyer sifted through press clippings at the time and launched legal action. Daily Mail P8 Also on MediaGuardian.co.uk today Top Gear's Stig unmasked BBC says planned memoirs by Ben Collins, revealed to be latest mysterious test driver, 'breached confidentiality obligations' Bedell to take chair at MGEITF ITV executive to succeed Endemol's Tim Hincks as chair of MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival Ally Ross: 'Why I won't appear on television' The Sun's TV critic on what he thinks of the BBC and what makes him nod off What do TV controllers want on screen? Jay Hunt, Peter Fincham and Janice Hadlow are among TV bosses to reveal what they plan for the future Broadcasters upbeat as TV ads increase 2010 is seeing an increase in TV advertising for the first time in five years, but who will benefit? BBC storm over pay and pensions threatens Proms Industrial action over pay and pensions could wreck the climax of the Proms next month. What does Roger Wright, the Proms supremo and controller of Radio 3, have to say? Onstage drama at Edinburgh TV festival The biggest change in the last year has been that of government, and the ideas of new culture secretary Jeremy Hunt are sure to spark debate on funding and regulation Monday's Media section All the stories from this week's Media section of the Guardian Tomorrow's media needs to be wired, inspired and for women Peter Preston: Success of female-friendly websites like Mail Online suggests direction for national newspapers Open door Chris Elliott: The readers' editor on… words, pictures and fine distinctions Fox News silent on News Corp's $1m gift News Corporation's $1m donation to the Republican Party has, unsurprisingly, attracted a lot of media comment in the US Powell promoted at Sky Sports News Presenter gets newly created sports editor role, fronting bulletins on Sky News, as Sky Sports News goes behind pay barrier Sky News Online editor leaves for BBC Jon Gripton to become managing editor of BBC Jersey Attitude owner to buy Loaded IPC in discussions with Vitality Publishing, private equity-backed publisher of Attitude and Women's Fitness, to sell lads' title Media Talk podcast New Ofcom study shows reports of TV's death are greatly exaggerated. 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