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The BuzzFeed logo is displayed on the wall as employees work in the newsroom at the company's headquarters in New York.
The BuzzFeed logo is displayed on the wall as employees work in the newsroom at the company’s headquarters in New York. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
The BuzzFeed logo is displayed on the wall as employees work in the newsroom at the company’s headquarters in New York. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Today's media stories from the papers

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Our roundup of the day’s media stories, including BuzzFeed chief executive Jonah Peretti confirms it is planning an IPO

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Top story on MediaGuardian

BuzzFeed announces IPO as clicks and videos keep public hooked
Chief executive Jonah Peretti has not offered a timeline for the move, but investors will want to know after site was valued at $850m in August

Top comment on MediaGuardian

Why press freedom-loving Fifa and Qatar are so perfectly matched
Roy Greenslade: Joined in unholy matrimony, both believe journalists should know their place

Today’s headlines

The Guardian
Extremism bill to include powers to strengthen the role of Ofcom. P8
Children increasingly using the word ‘hashtag’. P13
More than half of UK homes now own a tablet computer. P17
Snapchat aiming for IPO. P33

Daily Telegraph
Children increasingly using the word ‘hashtag’. P7
Archers editor: country life is better than any thriller. P13
Eddie Butler: BBC will fight to keep the Six Nations. P13
Obituary: former BBC Radio 1 controller Derek Chinnery. P27
Sky walks away from deal with Silvio Berlusconi over Mediaset. Business P4

Financial Times
One in 10 toddlers has own tablet. P4
Victory for adblocking software. P17
Snapchat outlines IPO plans. P20
Altice was ‘not ready’ for Time Warner Cable deal. P21
Japan’s Line app prepares to takeon Snapchat in Us and Europe. P21

The Times
British journalists played crusial role in exposing Fifa corruption. P6
Children increasingly using the word ‘hashtag’. P15

The Independent
BBC joins ‘poverty porn’ trend with show for low-income contestants. P19
Online advertisements get more complaints than TV campaigns. P19
Interview with actor Stephen Mangan. P40
Snapchat’s founder has plan for US listing. P53

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Peter Capaldi to appear at Comic-Con. P3
BBC wants low-paid to ‘graft’ for game show. P19
Interview with actor Stephen Mangan. P38
The Week in Radio. P39

Wall Street Journal Europe
Comment on the FCC’s role in Time Warner Cable deal. P12
Debt fears rise at Time Warner Cable. P16
Altice was ‘not ready’ for Time Warner Cable deal. P17

Daily Mail
BBC2’s Kim Shillinglaw ‘let licence fee money be spent on her husband’s TV show’. P11
Jan Moir: More TV panel shows are ripe for the chop after Never Mind the Buzzcocks’ demise. P17
Archers boss: I was sad Nigel Pargetter was killed off. P21
Glyndebourne chief David Pickard takes top job at BBC Proms. P29

Daily Express
Virginia Blackburn: is there no end to leftwing bias at the BBC? P14
Englebert Humperdinck says Eurovision is ‘unfair’. P18

The Sun
EastEnders’ Jake Wood to take a year off the soap. P3
BBC searches for new weather presenter. P7
UK consumers pay twice as much to download films, music and games as Americans. P23
Dapper Laughs comic in Celebrity Big Brother talks. P31
Britain’s Got Talent coverage. P32-33

Daily Mirror
Coronation Street stars banned from taking part on Christmas pantos. P3
BBC pays 20 years’ royalties for Sherlock episode to wrong man. P25

Daily Star
TV bosses fight for James Corden’s Late Late Show in UK. P3
Louis Walsh says Nick Grimshaw has signed to be an X Factor judge. P7
Britain’s Got Talent coverage. P7

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