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Media briefing Monday 23 Feb 2015 g Top stories on MediaGuardian More » Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind face new 'cash for access' allegations Former foreign secretaries offered to use their political influence on behalf of fictitious Chinese firm set up by Channel 4’s Dispatches  Daily Telegraph provokes fresh outrage over reporting of ‘suicides’ at News UK Mental health charities and senior journalists urge caution after newspaper’s report of ‘tragic deaths’  YouTube targets music lovers and children to head off rivals Streaming service Music Key and YouTube Kids app to counter popularity of rivals such as Google and Facebook  Snapchat boss sees music as a 'really interesting opportunity' Fresh from adding soundtrack feature to social app, Evan Spiegel hints at more plans to merge music and messaging in the future  The National’s Richard Walker: ‘We can and will be critical of the SNP’ Editor of new daily newspaper and Sunday Herald on being radical and the challenges of covering independence  Retrial of two al-Jazeera journalists held in Egypt on terror charges set to begin Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed renew their fight for freedom weeks after the release of Australian colleague Peter Greste  Mark Zuckerberg 'not sure' about Internet.org advertising Initiative to bring internet access to emerging markets focused on getting people online, but not (yet) on advertising to them  Bill O'Reilly calls accusations of exaggerated war reporting 'total bullshit' The Fox News host responds to the Mother Jones magazine report which raised questions about his account of reporting on 1982 war in Falkland Islands  BBC spent £34m on taxi fares in past three years Breakdown of spend shows corporation paid almost £12m in 2014, with cancelled bookings costing £24,401  EastEnders live week: more than 10m watch Lucy Beale's killer revealed BBC soap draws highest ratings in more than two years with double bill focusing on whodunnit storyline  Today's newspaper headlines More » Today's media stories from the papers Our roundup of the day’s media stories, including the Telegraph and Channel 4 in ‘cash for access’ scoop and Telegraph provokes fresh outrage over reporting of ‘suicides’ at News UK  Media Monkey's pick of the day More » BBC’s Nick Robinson has some winning moves to earn extra cash as a speaker According to his agency Speakers Corner, Nick Robinson is “a sought-after after-dinner speaker, keynote speaker, conference facilitator and awards host on the corporate circuit”. As part of this energetic, multi-hatted other life the BBC’s already overworked political editor will be found on 19 March giving the keynote address at the Jersey Finance Annual Funds Conference. Entitled Winning Moves (a name inspired by chess, so the website image shows a checkmate - but who’s being checkmated, eh?), this gathering of “world class funds professionals” will reunite him with Jeremy Paxman, as Paxo will be quizzing selected fatcats and giving a “closing address”. Monkey’s eyebrows are somewhat higher than usual, but apparently it’s all OK: “BBC people” are allowed to accept such engagements, it seems, “as long as they seek permission from their line manager and it’s not judged to be a conflict of interest. Nick did and it wasn’t”.

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