Media Brief

I'm the BBC's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.
Richard Desmond, owner of the Express titles and the Daily Star, has indicated he would like to buy the Sun. He told Radio 4's Today he has a billion pounds to spend on acquisitions. But there is no indication that Rupert Murdoch wants to sell the paper.

According to the Guardian, former Capital Radio boss Fru Hazlitt, who oversaw its sale to Global Radio, is joining ITV in the new role of managing director, commercial and online - bringing together its TV and online sales. She replaces Rupert Howell and Ben McOwen Wilson.

Richard Curtis, the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Blackadder, has written the latest Doctor Who script. The BBC reports that he was told to redraft it because it was too wordy.

The BBC newspaper review highlights that the gunman's killings in Cumbria again dominate the newspapers.

Links in full

• BBC Radio 4 | Today
• Mark Sweney | Guardian | Fru Hazlitt to join ITV
• BBC | Richard Curtis told to redraft Doctor Who script
• BBC | Cumbria shootings aftermath dominates Friday's papers

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