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I'm the Â鶹Éç's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

The Â鶹Éç has announced in a press release that its director of marketing, communications and audiences, Sharon Baylay, is to leave the Â鶹Éç. This is following Tuesday's announcement that the deputy director general Mark Byford is being made redundant. She too will not be replaced. Peter Salmon, director of Â鶹Éç North, and Lucy Adams, head of people, are to leave the executive board but will keep their jobs. Â鶹Éç staff have been told of the changes this morning in an email from the director-general Mark Thompson.

The Â鶹Éç has announced that its director of marketing communications and audiences, Sharon Bayley, is to leave the Â鶹Éç, following yesterday's announcement that the deputy director general Mark Byford is being made redundant. The Sharon Baylay is on a salary of £281,000 and speculates she could be in line for an exit deal of up to £327,000.

The [subscription required] the Â鶹Éç's creative director Alan Yentob may leave too, as part of Mark Thompson's move to streamline the Â鶹Éç's top management. It says Jana Bennett, the director of Â鶹Éç Vision, is understood to have been in talks with Â鶹Éç Worldwide. The Â鶹Éç has no comment on the suggestions.

The that the National Union of Journalists has warned that anger among Â鶹Éç staff at the "massive payoff" given to the Â鶹Éç's departing deputy director general, Mark Byford, is likely to lead to strike action over pensions changes at the corporation.

The John Simpson has criticised Mark Thompson for saying that the Â鶹Éç was once very left-wing. He is reported to have said at the Cheltenham Literature Festival that when he was the Â鶹Éç's political editor, "We were as straight as a dye then and I think it is absolutely as straight as a dye now."

Howard Jacobson has become the first comic novelist to win the Man Booker Prize. The it is a surprise win because "a comic novel has never satisfied the high-minded tastes of previous judges of the Man Booker prize" before.

As the papers were being printed, the impending rescue of the first of the 33 miners trapped underground in Chile for weeks was grabbing attention, as the Â鶹Éç Newspaper review shows.

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