"The BBC will propose sharing regional news resources, including non-exclusive footage, to help ITV with the costs of its regional bulletins, and it will tell commercial radio companies that it is willing to spend heavily to market digital radio."

Channel 4 News liveblogged the 42-day detention vote in the House of Commons using CoveritLive.

Revealed: the stories they didn’t want to tell.

Jon Snow: "One wonders whether viewers, readers and listeners will ever want to trust media bosses again. Or perhaps this was a courageous editorial decision to protect this fine young man?"

PR guru Max Clifford’s come out unexpectedly fiercely in criticising what he regards as an ill-thought out publicity stunt. "It just comes across, the whole thing, as a very, very calculated public relations exercise," he claims

"Middlesbrough’s mayor plans to complain to media regulator Ofcom unless Channel 4 apologises for branding the town the worst place to live in the UK."

Channel, which bought half of Emap’s music television division in July for £28 million, is understood to have spoken to Emap executives about a price for acquiring the remaining 50 per cent stake.

"The online alternative universe that is Second Life was supposed to offer myriad opportunities for media companies to showcase their wares. Chris Green takes a look at their differing fortunes "

"Channel 4 News will air a special report on North Korea tonight which will document a family’s escape from the totalitarian state for the first time on television."

Channel 4 News Science Correspondent Tom Clarke dissects the many ’solutions’ to global warming being marketed to consumers, from tree planting and carbon offsetting to green energy tariffs.

"Sky TV’s [carbon offsetting] claims for a renewable energy plant in Bulgaria may prove illusory," Channel 4’s Dispatches programme into carbon offsetting will suggest tomrrow.

"Channel 4 newsman Alex Thomson was rapped after claiming coverage of Maddie made him SICK."

Jon Snow: "I think there is no future for the tie because it has been exposed to ridicule."