Media Brief
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|08:30 UK time, Monday, 28 February 2011
I'm the BBC's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on in the industry.
The King's Speech has won four Oscars - best film, best director (Tom Hooper), best actor (Colin Firth) and best original screenplay (David Seidler), BBC News reports. Natalie Portman was named best actress and Christian Bale best supporting actor.
Colin Firth talks about his Oscar win on Radio 4's Today programme, which he recently guest-edited.
A ban on product placement has been lifted, allowing advertisers to pay for their goods to be seen on British TV. The first product will be a Nescafe coffee machine on ITV1's This Morning, the BBC says.
Richard Kay in the Daily Mail says questions are being asked about Lord Patten's bid for the chairmanship of the BBC Trust after he admitted he would combine the role with five corporate jobs paying hundreds of thousands of pounds a year.
Lord Patten will launch a root-and-branch review of the BBC's governance structure, the Telegraph reported over the weekend, after he was confirmed as the Government's choice to take over as the corporation's chairman in May.
The Guardian's Maggie Brown says six bidders are lining up to express interest in running the local TV network proposed by the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Initial submissions - with a 10-page business plan - are due in tomorrow. She says "community purists" fear it could become just another national channel, while others are sceptical of the plan's commercial viability.
Arianna Huffington has been accused of making a personal fortune from the labour of thousands of bloggers who write for no pay. She's sold the Huffington Post to AOL for $315m. America's Newspaper Guild, the journalists' union, says the website's business model has done great damage by not paying contributors and Huffington should invest some of her profit in paid journalism, the Guardian reports.
Speculation about a Libya without Colonel Gaddafi dominates several papers, shows the BBC newspapers review.
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