Media Brief

I'm the BBC's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on. Some content may need a subscription.

The Telegraph says five trade unions at the BBC have threatened a strike over changes to its pension scheme. It could start in September.

Melvyn Bragg has taken the South Bank Show Awards to Sky Arts, who he says are "really starting to punch above their weight" reports the Guardian.

The BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones analyses conflicting figures on the Times 'great paywall experiment'. The paper's former media editor Dan Sabbagh has been told that just 15,000 people have signed up to pay for online access, but 12,500 are paying for the iPhone app.

The Guardian says the Times has lost 90 per cent of its online traffic.

Should the TV licence fee be cut? And should the National Audit Office be given full access to the BBC accounts? Steve Hewlett of The Media Show and John Whittingdale, chair of the Culture Media & Sport Committee, discussed it for Radio 4's Today programme.

The former owner of the Daily Telegraph Conrad Black has been granted bail pending an appeal against his fraud conviction reports the BBC.

The BBC newspaper review says David Cameron's flagship policy, the "big society", is put under the microscope in several papers.

Links in full

• Neil Midgley | Telegraph | BBC strike threat to Last Night of the Proms
• Maggie Brown | Guardian | Lord Bragg takes South Bank Show to Sky Arts
• Rory Cellan Jones | BBC | The Times paywall: Hit or miss?
• Josh Halliday | Guardian | Times loses almost 90% of online readership
• BBC Today Programme | BBC 'should do less, but better'
• BBC | Conrad Black is granted bail pending appeal
• BBC | Newspaper review

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