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Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.uk Pressure on Hunt over BSkyB affair Call for independent adviser to assess whether culture secretary breached ministerial code during News Corp takeover bid Murdoch told a 'shameful lie' to Leveson Leveson inquiry: Former NoW legal manager Tom Crone denies he was responsible for phone-hacking cover-up and did not stop journalists telling bosses News Corp shareholders 'troubled' by Murdochs' testimony to Leveson inquiry US shareholders worry testimony raises new questions and poses threats to other areas of company's media empire Today's featured media jobs Future - Advertising Data Operations Manager Bath/permanent/full time LivingSocial - Inside Sales Executive - Social Media London/permanent/full time Guardian News & Media - Marketing Executive London/permanent/full time For more jobs, career advice and workplace news visit guardianjobs.co.uk Today's headlines The Guardian I failed: Murdoch's apology for phone-hacking cover up. P1 Nick Davies on Murdoch: He wriggled, he railed, but finally Murdoch met his match. P1 Galloway calls in lawyer on New Statesman's ceremony allegation. P4 Recriminations fly as Murdoch points finger at former staff. P6 How convincing was Murdoch? P6 Murdoch's non-reading list. P6 Murdoch's evidence: "I should have thrown the damn lawyers out and torn the place apart." P8, 9 Michael White's Leveson sketch. P10 Murdoch insists Brown made threatening call. P12 Questions over breach of ministerial code put fresh pressure on Hunt. P13 Doubts cast on claim Salmond backed BSkyB for sake of jobs. P13 Robert Redford on David Cameron's "narrow view" of film industry. P17 Leveson inquiry - the focus will soon be on Downing Street. P38 Polly Toynbee: A shameful and odious tale laid out for all to see. P39 Editorial: Rupert Murdoch - crisis? What crisis? P40 BBC Sport chief underlines commitment to big events. P45 Marina Hyde: how Rupert Murdoch became Simon Cowell's paperboy. G2, P3 The Voice is about voices in the same way that Britain's Got Talent is about talent. G2, P4 Interview: the puppeteer behind Sesame Street's Elmo. G2, P5 Your next box set: 24. G2, P28 Review: Channel 4's The Plot to Bring Down Britain's Planes. G2, P29 The Independent Hunt on borrowed time as Whitehall digs in. P1 Hunt fights to save job. P2,3 New evidence emerges that Osborne was lobbied by Murdoch. P4 At long last the watchdog is on the scent. P5 Murdoch's final outing with Leveson. P6 Comment: Hayley Barlow - betrayed by a belligerent old man on the brink. P9 News Corp offered Gove £2m to build "free school". P9 Editorial: The net is closing around culture secretary. P18 Leveson inquiry comment - now we know the power of the cosy chat. P19 Letters: Leveson inquiry. P20 Robert Redford says PM underestimates public appetite for innovative film making. P27 Could the Leveson inquiry become a Hollywood hit? P27 Is it game over for Nintendo? P30 Seven die in attacks on newspapers in Nigeria. P37 i Murdoch admits there was a cover-up at News of the World. P1 Leveson coverage. P4, 5 Hunt fights to save his job. P6 At last, regulator on the attack. P6 Osborne faces questions on BSkyB. P6 Sun may set on Daybreak view. P13 Simon Cowell's surprise appearance at book launch. P17 David Cameron should stick to politics, says Robert Redford. P19 Nintendo's first loss. P51 Daily Telegraph Demands for inquiry into Hunt's links with Murdoch. P1 Robert Redford takes David Cameron to task. P3 Someone covered up hacking, says Murdoch. P8 BBC apologised after Silent Witness violent scenes. P13 Robert Redford interview. P33 Interview: The Voice's Danny O'Donoghue. P36 News Corp's BSkyB stake at risk from Ofcom. B1 Game over for Nintendo? B3 The Times Murdoch urged to reveal details of first inquiry into hacking. P1 Editorial: Murdoch's Leveson testimony left big questions hanging. P2 Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry. P6 Hacking scandal "not a great national thing until Guardian story". P7 Top civil servant phoned Leveson "to protect Hunt". P8 Brown "obsessed" over Sun's switch to Tories. P9 Murdoch: "Newspapers will be dead in 20 years - some say by 2017." P10 Opinion: the all-powerful press baron is just a myth. P29 First loss for Nintendo. P50 Hunt's left DCMS on last legs. Times2, P3 Interview with creator of original Homeland. Times2, P10 Financial Times Ofcom deepens probe into BSkyB. P1 Rupert Murdoch accuses lawyer of cover-up. P2 Ofcom scrutiny raises stakes for investors. P2 Tories challenge refusal to probe minister. P2 Hunt paying price for ignoring watchdog advice, says Labour. P2 Nigeria newspaper hit by deadly blasts. P5 Editorial: Plurality, Hunt and the media debate. P10 Murdoch is just another businessman playing the power game. P11 Nintendo posts first annual loss in 50 years. P18 Wall Street Journal Europe Murdoch blames others for phone hacking scandal. P1 Nintendo records a rare loss. P19 For Apple, China is the middle kingdom. P22 Daily Mail Online porn: now Labour joins the battle. P1, P2 Tories turn the heat on Jeremy Hunt over BSkyB dealings. P6 Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern: I preferred the first series. P7 News of the World lawyer brands Rupert Murdoch's testimony a "shameful lie". P8 Murdoch stands by evidence on Gordon Brown row. P8 Ofcom steps up inquiry into BSkyB. P8 Three arrested over football rape tweets. P13 Viewer backlash over graphic sex attack in BBC crime drama. P38 Daily Express David Cameron faces quiz on secret meetings with Murdoch. P6 Murdoch: I was victim of 'cover-up' of phone hacking by own staff. P6, P7 Murdoch stands by evidence on Gordon Brown row. P6 Harriet Harman tells Hunt: Show us the BSkyB emails. P7 Carol Vorderman weeps over Richard Whiteley on Piers Morgan's Life Stories. P31 The Sun Britney Spears gets green light to be judge on US The X Factor. P3 Murdoch: hacking covered up at News of the World. P12 Sky row: Hunt in a sweat. P12 Simon Cowell braced for more revelations in paperback edition of Tom Bower's book. TVBIZ, P1 X Factor host Dermot O'Leary on BBC1's The Voice. TVBiz, P2 Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer to return to Channel 4 to mark its 30th anniversary. TVBiz, P3 Elizabeth McGovern not so keen on Downton Abbey 2. TVBiz, P4 Daily Mirror BBC apologises for violent scenes in Silent Witness. P2 Carol Vorderman tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories. P9 News of World ex-legal chief hits back at Murdoch. P11 Hunt on the run over BSkyB scandal. P11 Elizabeth McGovern not so keen on Downton Abbey 2. P14 Daily Star Murdoch blames senior executives for News of the World cover-up. P2 Hunt on the rack. P2 Simon Cowell on last year's Britain's Got Talent. P10 And finally ... The cameras will go into the dressing room at Liverpool FC as part of a fly on the wall documentary about the club, reports the Daily Star. "This will be an amazing opportunity for our fans to see a new side of the club," says chairman Tom Werner. Manager Kenny Dalgish will be hoping it doesn't do for him what Channel 4's infamous Cutting Edge doc about the England football team did for the national side's then manager Graham Taylor in 1994. We're sure it won't. DAILY STAR, P3 Also on MediaGuardian.co.uk today WPP reports revenues of £2.4bn Sir Martin Sorrell's marketing services group raises profit target on back of 4% growth Independent overtakes Mirror Group Digital ABCes: Independent now fifth-largest national newspaper website in UK, according to latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures Barclay brothers' loan to property baron 'unconnected to bid for hotels' Debt-ridden Irish tycoon tells court he merely asked brothers for financial help, as rival bidder for the three London properties pursues lawsuit against Barclays Gawker unveils new comments system and Nick Denton immediately uses it to pick fight with BuzzFeed After users accuse him of trying to emulate BuzzFeed, Denton jumps into the fray to accuse rival Jonah Peretti of 'stunt' tactics Mecom issues profit warning Pan-European publisher Mecom issues warning after unexpected double-digit slump in advertising in first quarter News International offered to sponsor academy school Leveson publishes emails between publisher and Department for Education over plans to put £2m into east London school Boko Haram suspected as bombs kill at least seven at Nigerian newspapers Radical Islamist sect Boko Haram suspected of detonating two bombs at ThisDay newspaper offices in Abuja and Kaduna Ofcom extends BSkyB investigation Media regulator asks News Group Newspapers to provide papers relating to civil litigation in which Murdoch firm is involved Evidence of 'undeclared' Murdoch-Cameron meetings withdrawn News Corp schedule of encounters presented to Leveson inquiry is revised after No 10 finds no evidence of three meetings Leveson Inquiry: Rupert Murdoch takes aim at ex-editors and rivals Rupert Murdoch was in pugilistic mood on his second day at the Leveson inquiry, passing mostly critical comment on his rivals