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Sunday Round Up: Trinity Mirror, Business Gateway, X-Factor, Twitter

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

September 12, 2010 | 3 min read

A round up of some of the stories in today's Sunday Newspapers relating to media and marketing.

The Sunday Times reports that Trinity Mirror’s national division’s chief Mark Hollinshead is favourite to succeed David Montgomery following Montgomery’s ‘retirement’ from European Newspaper publisher Mecon. Montgomery announced his decision to leave the company he founded earlier this week after months of clashing with the board over the future of the publishing house.

Scotland on Sunday says that publicly funded business start-up organisation Business Gateway has been branded ‘unlawful’ by Raymond O'Hare, chairman of the Institute of Directors Scotland, who believes that its level of service has been ‘inconsistent’.

ITV is attempting to persuade X-Factor mogul Simon Cowell to sign a new three-year-deal after he told reporters that he was considering quitting the series to concentrate on launching it in the US. The Telegraph reveals that ITV's director of television, Peter Fincham is set to enter talks with Cowell to extend his contract with the broadcaster, currently worth a reported £6m a year.

200,000 public sector jobs have already been lost or at risk of being lost, according to the Sunday Mirror. A study by the GMB Union says that 150,000 jobs were lost or are in the pipeline to be cut in over 150 public sector organisations across the UK.

A man who used Twitter in an attempt to insight the assassination of Venezuelan President Huge Chavez has been arrested, says The Sunday Express. The man, employed by the State electricity board was arrested having placed a message on Twitter earlier this week calling for the President to be killed.

Meanwhile the same paper reports on a barbed online conversation between Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sarah Palin on Twitter. “Looking everywhere but can't see Russia from here", was his message, referencing a remark made by Palin during the election in 2008. Palin’s response was "Arnold should have landed" so she could explain to him her state's multibillion dollar budget surplus.

A campaign is be launched by NHS Ayrshire and Arran to encourage women to breastfeed their children and make the practice more acceptable in public. The campaign, which include stickers for shop windows to support the initiative, will take be pilotted in North-West Kilmarnock, says Scotland on Sunday, before rolling out across the country.

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