Media Brief

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

Super-fast broadband will be available to every home in the UK by 2020, the prime minister is to promise. The Conservatives say they've made a similar pledge reports the BBC.

A one-week audit of older people on television has found that BBC One featured fewer over-50s than ITV1. But BBC Two showed a higher proportion of older people than the population as a whole according to the BBC and the Telegraph.

Elisabeth Murdoch has given a rare interview to Media Guardian about her production company Shine, and her family.

Facebook has overtaken Google as the most popular website in the United States as analysed by the Sunday Times.

Steve Hewlett in Media Guardian says a "savage" review of Channel 4 by MPs has had little coverage.

Claims that three Labour ex-cabinet ministers offered to exploit their government connections for money dominate the morning newspapers as shown in the BBC newspaper review. They follow an investigation by the Sunday Times and Channel 4.

Links in full

BBC | Gordon Brown's super-fast broadband for all plan
BBC | BBC One 'should have more over-50s,' report says
Urmee Khan | Telegraph | BBC One has fewer presenters over 50 than ITV
Jane Martinson | Guardian | Elisabeth Murdoch on Shine, family succession
Dominic Rushe | Times | Facebook tightens its grip on the mighty Google
Steve Hewlett | Guardian | Channel 4 select committee review is a stinker
BBC | Newspaper review

• Read Friday's Media Brief.

• Look at my archive of media articles on Delicious.