Today's media stories from the papers

Top stories on MediaGuardian.co.uk News Corp courts BSkyB board with improved offer Talks over price and regulatory issues likely as Rupert Murdoch group raises bid for 61% stake in satellite broadcaster to £7.8bn Times journalists prepare to leave paper after redundancy offer Times journalists put names forward under voluntary redundancy programme following 'unsustainable' losses at the paper BBC offers lower-paid staff £475 rise Unions urge members to reject corporation's pay offer This week's featured media jobs Mouchel - Head of Communications London/permanent/full time Sage - Editorial Assistant London/permanent/full time Sky Comms International - Account Director/Senior Account Manager London/temp/full time For more jobs, career advice and workplace news visit guardianjobs.co.uk Today's headlines The Guardian Piers Morgan eyes prim-etime US chatshow. P4 BBC may offer 'vuvuzela-free' World Cup matches. P3 BBC offers lower paid staff £475 annual pay rise and freezes salaries for higher earners. P4 Microsoft's launches Kinect, the first hands-free gaming device. P11 Online venture to give budding DJs a free studio. P11 The Independent Piers Morgan poised to take over from Larry King at CNN. P5 Rory Bremner admits fear of writing sketches about Islam. P5 AT&T blames hackers for breaching iPad security. P38 UK media and entertainment industry set to see revenues increase. P38 easyJet in court with Stelios Haji-Ioannou over branding agreement dispute. P41 Daily Telegraph BBC plans 'vuzuvela-free' channel after receiving more than 200 complaints. P5 Journalist faces jail over leaking clip of Nicolas Sarkozy reprimanding TV studio worker. P16 The Times BBC to boost salaries of more than 13,000 workers. P1 Virgin to launch Virgin Gaming. P39 Traditional media looks to iPad and mobile advertising. P42 UBM makes acquisitions. P40 Financial Times Obama TV address to show he has bigger target in mind. P6 Cineworld cinemas to go all digital . P18 Telecom Italia's challenge. P21 Le Monde sets fresh deadline in its search for a buyer. P22 News Corp in two deals to build paywalls. P22 Video games to be worth triple the music market by 2014. P23 Wall Street Journal Europe North Korean broadcast of match probed. P3 Microsoft puts gaming plans in motion. P19 Mobile network bet pays off for India's Tata Teleservices. P21 Activision CEO plays hard. P22 AT&T's iPad flaw. P24 Daily Mail Cineworld invests £30m in digital screens. P65 Daily Express Jon Snow to try standup comedy at Edinburgh festival. P15 The Sun BBC sends big teams to cover Glastonbury and World Cup. P8 Ally Ross on Big Brother. P13 Natalie Imbruglia guests as judge on The X Factor. TV Biz P1 ITV's The Bill shoots final scenes. TV Biz P2-3 Big Brother coverage. TV Biz P2 Emmerdale coverage. TV Biz P4 Daily Mirror Inside the BBC's World Cup studio. P6 Adrian Chiles fails to impress as ITV's World Cup frontman. P7 Christine Bleakley in tug of war between BBC and ITV. P19 Bruce Forsyth tells BBC bosses to get top stars for Strictly Come Dancing. P25 ITV's The Bill shoots last ever scenes. P25 Daily Star Victoria Beckham to voice character in SpongeBob Squarepants. P3 BBC tipped to sign up Penny Smith if Christine Bleakley quits for ITV. P15 Big Brother coverage. P17 And finally ... Jeffrey Archer could get the Bollywood treatment after Indian producers approached him about turning a short story into a film. Archer told the Times of India that the interest was in a story about a couple who meet at a stalled traffic signal in Delhi and fall in love. The Times P34 Also on MediaGuardian.co.uk today Piers Morgan meets CNN over show deal Britain's Got Talent judge may replace veteran TV presenter Larry King on US cable news channel Mark Lawson joins race for Radio 4 top job Presenter of Radio 4's flagship arts series Front Row understood to have been interviewed for the role by the BBC last week Trinity Mirror staff vote for strike ballot In-house union seeks better terms for 200 staff facing redundancy, and is likely to call for chief executive to hand back pay rise M&C Saatchi directors' pay soars Ad agency's top staff, including co-founder Maurice Saatchi, receive increases of up to 15% despite scrapping of bonuses World Cup: the newspaper front pages <How the world's press has covered the first three days of the tournament Alan Yentob: 'I could have run the BBC - but I'd probably have been sacked' The presenter and producer of Imagine on being the BBC's creative director and the future of the corporation Telegraph returns Euston to Victoria Separate digital unit was brainchild of former editor-in-chief Will Lewis and led to dispute with chief executive Murdoch MacLennan Italian media protest at 'gagging law' Italian media are up in arms over a law curbing police wiretaps and imposing fines for news organisations that publish transcripts Christine Bleakley 'torn' between ITV and BBC The One Show presenter issues statement pushing back on claims of new BBC deal, and praising former co-host Adrian Chiles Media Talk The new culture secretary outlines his media policy. Plus, Guardian Media Group reports a pre-tax loss of £171m and the beginning of the end for Big Brother