Today's media stories from the papers

Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.uk ITV profit triples after TV ad surge Broadcaster reports 16% rise in TV ad revenues thanks to hit shows such as The X Factor Government cuts ad spend by £130m in nine months Coalition pledges to introduce approvals system to ensure only 'essential' campaigns run for next four years Luke Johnson and Paul Jackson team to bid for new national TV channel Former chairman of Channel 4 and former BBC and ITV executive become ninth bidders in race through Local6 group This week's featured media jobs Net-A-Porter - Website Manager London/permanent/full time Redactive Publishing - Reporter London/permanent/full time Oxford University Press - Editorial Director Oxford/permanent/full time For more jobs, career advice and workplace news visit guardianjobs.co.uk Today's headlines The Guardian Row over Julian Assange 'Jewish conspiracy' comments. P4 Downtown Abbey shortlisted for just one TV award. P8 LSE plans Libya scholarship fund with Gaddafi donation. P13 Jimmy Wales: PlagiPedia proves the web can correct its own follies. P30 Oliver Burkeman: Donald Rumsfeld gets away with it on The Daily Show. G2, P5 What can Julian Assange gain by trademarking his name? G2, P13 The Independent Tommy Sheridan's lawyers claim phone hacking. P11 'Son not harmed by publicity' judge rules. P20 New BBC digital station offers 69 years of Desert Island Discs. P22, Viewspaper, P2 Charlie Sheen rejects studio payoff. P32 Broadband providers 'misleading' ads exposed. P33 Pearson vows to extend Libyans' dividends. P34 HMV has the blues. P37 Ex-Apple buyer says he accepted bribes. P38 Taking good photos on mobile phones. Viewspaper, P10, 11 Daily Telegraph Question Time rants lose drunk his TV. P3 Watchdog wants truth on broadband speeds. P10 'Web risks' for young fans of Peppa Pig. P11 BBC to put 500 editions of Desert island Discs online. P14 Oprah's TV channel struggles in the ratings. P16 Rupert Murdoch to fund hived-off Sky News in bid remedy. Business, P1 Libya shareholding frozen by Pearson. Business, P1 Promethean World eases burden of homework. Business, P3 Ex-Apple employee faces 20 years in jail. Business, P8 The Times Matt Riley: Mobiles are shifting from a luxury to a necessity. P20 M&S boss walks away from HMV 'debt disaster'. P37 Pearson stops Libyan dividend payment. P38 Financial Times Regulator considers changes to broadband advertising code. P4 HMV drops 22% after saying it expects to break bank covenants. P17 Wall Street Journal Europe China tightens freedoms for foreign journalists. P10 HMV stock dives after warnings. P17 Vivendi eyes Brazil for growth. P18 'Unconference' shadows tech glitterati. P29 Daily Mail Three quarters of under-fives online daily. P11 X Factor coverage. P17 Daily Express 'Debt disaster' news rocks stricken HMV. P70 Question Time rants lose drunk his TV. P11 The Sun HMV plea to banks. P49 TV Biz supplement Daily Mirror David Cameron plans 'Soviet-style' government ads. P18 Playstation freeze. P25 Daily Star X Factor coverage. P3 And finally ... The Independent's campaign to unsettle Number 10's latest spin chief Craig Oliver continues unabated. Following yesterday's hard-headed analysis of Oliver's choice of headphones (Dr Dre's Beats "denoting a middle-aged man keen to convince passers-by that he was once deeply into hip-hop"), High Street Ken now reports that at the World Service no love has been lost by Oliver's departure. The mood at World Service HQ was, according to one source, "surprise, celebration and relief" when Oliver's departure was announced - not least because he'd been controller of global news and therefore hatchet man for those cuts. Whatever communication skills David Cameron hired Oliver for, "there weren't many people at the World Service who saw that as one of his strengths". The piece closes with a pic of Oliver wearing lederhosen. The Independent, P10 Also on MediaGuardian.co.uk today Daily Telegraph internal inquiry clears journalists of Vince Cable leak Telegraph's IT team questioned about leak of business secretary's 'declaration of war' on Rupert Murdoch to BBC HMV shares plunge on new profits warning HMV shares drop by 5p to 15.75p as it warns City that earnings for the current year would be below expectations Pearson freezes stake held by Libyan Investment Authority Financial Times owner's move comes after UK government order to block assets of Muammar Gaddafi and his family Average broadband speeds 'less than half those advertised', says Ofcom Britons get average broadband speed of 6.2 megabits per second, less than half average advertised speed of 13.8Mb Julian Assange 'Jewish conspiracy' comments spark row Ian Hislop writes in Private Eye that Assange accused him, the Guardian and Index on Censorship, before withdrawing claim 500 Desert Island Discs episodes to be made available online Archive to be accompanied by searchable database of every composition, book and luxury item chosen on Radio 4 show China tells foreign journalists to respect rules after scuffles at non-protest Journalists told they need advance permission to report from parts of Beijing and must not do so from a site in Shanghai Oscars 2011: ABC's audience down by nearly 10% Awards ceremony hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway attracts 37.6m viewers compared with last year's 41.3m ITV appoints former head of E4 as director of digital channels Angela Jain takes role vacated by new BBC 3 controller Zai Bennett and will be responsible for ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV Europe's highest court to rule on Google privacy battle in Spain Court to decide whether Spain's data protection authority has power to demand removal of newspaper articles from search engine