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BRITTIN'S GOT TALENT?
A new contender for the BBC director-general role is former Google exec Matt Brittin, who has plenty of experience of appearing before select committees…

SLANGING MATCH
The BBC's head of sport insists his department "can still be relevant" without TV rights – prompting the Mail to attack the Beeb's "pursuit of digital traffic".

PRIZE CHUMPS
A BBC insider assured Deadline Hollywood that it was prepared for Bafta hiccups ahead of the awards ceremony – and yet it still dropped the ball.

AD NAUSEAM
While Channel 4 promotes its water companies docudrama Dirty Business, the very firms pilloried continue to advertise just how well they're doing.

WORD GAMES
The Winter Olympics in Milan came to a bizarre end for IOC president Kirsty Coventry, who threw her communications team under the bus.

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Industrial waste
More troubles at both Teesside and Drax

Born to fail
MD on maternity and the NHS

Unfair Lady
How the staff of the Lady magazine were stiffed

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