Media Brief

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

The BBC has announced in a press release that its director of marketing, communications and audiences, Sharon Baylay, is to leave the BBC. This is following Tuesday's announcement that the deputy director general Mark Byford is being made redundant. She too will not be replaced. Peter Salmon, director of BBC North, and Lucy Adams, head of people, are to leave the executive board but will keep their jobs. BBC staff have been told of the changes this morning in an email from the director-general Mark Thompson.

The BBC has announced that its director of marketing communications and audiences, Sharon Bayley, is to leave the BBC, following yesterday's announcement that the deputy director general Mark Byford is being made redundant. The Daily Mail reports Sharon Baylay is on a salary of £281,000 and speculates she could be in line for an exit deal of up to £327,000.

The Times suggests [subscription required] the BBC's creative director Alan Yentob may leave too, as part of Mark Thompson's move to streamline the BBC's top management. It says Jana Bennett, the director of BBC Vision, is understood to have been in talks with BBC Worldwide. The BBC has no comment on the suggestions.

The Guardian reports that the National Union of Journalists has warned that anger among BBC staff at the "massive payoff" given to the BBC's departing deputy director general, Mark Byford, is likely to lead to strike action over pensions changes at the corporation.

The Telegraph says John Simpson has criticised Mark Thompson for saying that the BBC was once very left-wing. He is reported to have said at the Cheltenham Literature Festival that when he was the BBC's political editor, "We were as straight as a dye then and I think it is absolutely as straight as a dye now."

Howard Jacobson has become the first comic novelist to win the Man Booker Prize. The Independent says it is a surprise win because "a comic novel has never satisfied the high-minded tastes of previous judges of the Man Booker prize" before.

As the papers were being printed, the impending rescue of the first of the 33 miners trapped underground in Chile for weeks was grabbing attention, as the BBC Newspaper review shows.

Links in full

• BBC Press office | Mark Thompson announces reduced BBC Executive Board
• Daily Mail | Second BBC executive to go (with £325,000 goodbye): Now corporation's marketing chief is made redundant
• Times | Alan Yentob likely to leave BBC as six-figure executives are culled
• Guardian | Anger over Mark Byford payoff makes BBC strike action more likely, says NUJ
• Telegraph | John Simpson says BBC news was never left wing
• Arifa Akbar | Independent | Jacobson puts a smile on the face of the Booker
• BBC | Newspaper review

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