Weekend Media Briefing from lucecannon.com
GUARDIAN/OBSERVER
Alexandra Burke crowned latest X Factor winner.
Writer behind Wallander is the Swede we’ve all fallen in love with.
Commercial rivals say Radio 1’s listeners are too old.
Heart charity calls to ban junk food ads during ‘family’ TV.
Journalists accused of saying too much about banking crisis.
Profile of the Barclay brothers.
Celebrity agent Colin Angus dies in car crash in Co Down.
Ed Stourton ‘devastated’ to be sacked from Today programme.
Final Countdown: after 4,750 shows Carol’s drraepute.
Profile of X Factor judge Cheryl Cole.
BBC will not screen Crufts after row over dog welfare.
Celebrity drug plotter who targeted Amy Winehouse jailed for two years.
Marina Hyde: thanks for ‘civilised’ Elton John ruling.
Victory for irony as Elton John loses Guardian libel case.
New magazine attempts to lift lid on Arab taboos.
Online film and music piracy could cost 30,000 jobs.
TIMES
Actress who played Nora Batty has died aged 80.
X Factor winner favourite for Christmas No 1.
Secret deal has secured BBC’s funding until 2033.
Big bonus for Andy Duncan, head of ailing Channel 4.
Roman Polanski to sex up tale of ‘Tony Blair’s Ghost’.
BBC scraps Crufts coverage.
Presenter Ed Stourton sacked from Today job.
C4 facing decision on future funding in next six weeks.
TELEGRAPH
Hollywood split over actors’ strike plan.
Nora Batty actress Kathy Staff dies.
X Factor’s Alexandra Burke to be Christmas No 1.
John Sergeant to return to Strictly for one final performance.
Strictly Come Dancing shocked semi-finalists by putting three forward for final.
Ed Stourton says BBC treated him worse than Jonathan Ross in sacking him.
How previous X Factor finalists have fared.
Amy Winehouse drug film plotters jailed.
Australian actor Hugh Jackman to host Academy Awards.
Royle Family’s ‘posh’ in-laws come for Christmas.
Brucie will quit Strictly when his wife says he’s fluffed one line too many.
Strictly Outraged: all three couples make final after scoring bungle.
Jamie Oliver’s swearing to be cut from future programmes.
X Factor coverage.
MIRROR
Anna Smith: Alan Carr and co are beyond a joke.
SUN
X Factor judges cast in pizza dough to mark final.
Cry Bye, Carol (Vorderman).
X Factor coverage.
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Strictly voting fiasco.
Simon Cowell says 2009 X Factor may be his last.