Media Brief

I'm the BBC's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on in the industry.

Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi's security forces detained and beat up a BBC news team who were trying to reach the strife-torn city of Zawiya, the BBC reports. The three were beaten with fists, knees and rifles, hooded and subjected to mock executions by members of Libya's army and secret police. The men were detained on Monday and held for 21 hours, but have now flown out of Libya.

The Telegraph calls it the most extreme case of the Gaddafi regime's harassment of international journalists.

Outgoing BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons used his last major speech to launch a scathing attack on the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand obscene phone call scandal.

The Guardian republished the speech in its entirety.

The Daily Mail reports he said its 'toxic combination' made people think the BBC had lost its moral compass.

The BBC's report says the speech reflects the past few years have been one of the BBC's strongest periods despite some "memorable" gaffes. In a speech at the LSE, he praised the BBC's comedy, factual and news output but said the corporation had "shot itself in the foot" several times.

The BBC's global news director Peter Horrocks has indicated a further U-turn over planned cuts to the BBC World Service in response to the political crises in Africa and the Middle East, according to The Guardian. He told MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee that reductions in the distribution of the BBC Arabic service would not be as severe as originally planned. But he ruled out a wholesale reversal of the changes, which will see the loss of 60 jobs and an estimated 5.7 million listeners.

The Daily Mail's headline - "Work for longer and get a smaller pension" - gives a flavour of what public sector workers can expect from Lord Hutton's final report on their pensions according to the BBC's newspaper review. The Hutton review is also the lead for the Times, Guardian and Daily Express.

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