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And the British takeover of the New York Post continues with Sun digital editor Will Payne heading to the Big Apple
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Welcome to your daily Press Gazette media briefing on Monday, 23 June.
The BBC has been plunged into another impartiality row over its coverage of Gaza.
Previously, it was criticised for broadcasting eyewitness testimony from a child who it failed to disclose was the son of a Hamas official.
Now it has withdrawn a documentary about doctors working in Gaza because it said the film "risked creating a perception of partiality". One of the film's directors, Basement Films founder Ben de Pear, has said the BBC dropped the film despite "a long and repeated compliance process as well as scrupulous fact checking".
The film will now be released elsewhere after months of delays. Has the corporation failed the sources and brave journalists involved here in providing a voice for the victims of war?
Today, Press Gazette reports on the launch of a new app which uses AI to make it easier for journalists to create Tiktok videos. Former BBC Tiktok pioneer Sophia Smith Galer is behind the app, called Sophiana, which has been produced by her own digital consultancy.
We've also pulled out the latest weekday/Saturday split which reveals that the likes of the Daily Mail and FT double their sale at weekends compared to weekdays.
The Reach-owned Sunday People is the fastest falling national title, down 21.1% year on year to 42,700 copies per week. In the mid-2000s it was still averaging more than one million sales every Sunday.
We also have your news diary for the week ahead which begins today with the UK Government unveiling its ten-year industrial strategy and concludes with the Glastonbury Festival.
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Sophia Smith Galer app helps journalists who don’t have time to make Tiktok videos
Sophiana is a scriptwriting and teleprompter tool for journalists and other expert content creators.
Sun digital director Will Payne moving to New York Post
Payne will become deputy editor-in-chief at the Post.
Newspaper ABCs: Daily Star Sunday staves off month-on-month print circulation decline in May
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News in brief
Former MP Charlie Elphicke has had a new appeal rejected by a High Court judge in relation to legal costs he has been told to pay The Sunday Times over his discontinued libel case. (Press Gazette)
The BBC has shelved a film about doctors in Gaza which it said might "create a perception of partiality". Director and former Channel 4 News editor Ben de Pear said sorry to film's sources "for not believing them when they said the BBC would never run a film like this". (Ben de Pear on Linkedin)
Robert Thompson is set to continue as CEO of News Corp until 2030, the company has announced. The former Times editor has been in the job since 2013. (News Corp)