Newspaper Exclusive Watch.  As Crikey aficionados are well aware, we’ve been monitoring the war of “exclusives” between bitter national rivals The Australian Financial Review and The Australian over recent weeks. The Fin, alas, seems to have given up the ghost: there are only four exclusives in the paper today compared to 13 in The Australian. C’mon Stutch!

Luckily for exclusive watchers everywhere, a new contender has entered the fray: there are a stunning 10 exclusives in Sydney’s rambunctious tabloid The Daily Telegraph. Some — such as Mark Morri’s front page Breaking Bad-esque yarn on chemistry graduates turning to drug manufacturing — are genuine crackers. Others are not quite as electrifying: a page 16 story on an upcoming Rockwood cemetery film festival comes to mind. Our personal favourite, however, is a page 14 exclusive on a new stress-free camping experience from the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

No sign yet of a similar exclusives epidemic at the Tele‘s interstate siblings, but if they get in on the act we’ll let you know. Exclusively of course. — Matthew Knott

Ratings provider beefs up panel. OzTAM, the ratings group owned by Ten, Nine and Seven, says the size of its ratings panels will rise by nearly 15% later this year to 3500 across the country. By market, this will take the number of panel homes to 950 in Sydney; 900 in Melbourne; 650 in Brisbane; and 500 in Adelaide and Perth. In addition, 10% of OzTAM’s 3500 panel homes will have their TV sets and their PCs metered for viewing of broadcast TV content. That will see the first figures for multiple screen viewing of broadcast TV available later this year.

The company quoted the numbers in revealing an extension of its contract with Neilsen, the company that currently provides the television audience measurement (TAM) services in the five Australian metropolitan markets. The new agreement takes effect on January 1, 2015 and continues through 2017. OzTAM CEO Doug Peiffer said: “This new agreement leverages OzTAM’s substantial investments including the introduction of its Time Shift Viewing service, upgrading all panel homes to the state-of-the-art UNITAM metering system and decisions this year to increase the size of the OzTAM panels.”

The ABC and SBS television networks, Media Federation of Australia (MFA), Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) and Australian Subscription Television & Radio Association (ASTRA) have observer status at OzTAM board meetings. — Glenn Dyer

SMH, The Age apologise for Lachlan’s jet use. This morning Crikey had our attention drawn to the following apology that appeared in both The Age and Sydney Morning Herald‘s CBD business section for a snippet that appeared in the same column last Thursday:

Crikey‘s been told the offending material in the column was that it was James Murdoch, not Lachlan, that was the frequent flyer. That mistake  — getting the two Murdoch boys mixed up — is one that Crikey has made in the past too.

Front page of the day. London’s summer of Games officially ended overnight at the Paralympics celebrated its closing ceremony. The London Olympics and Paralympics have received plaudits from around the globe for how well they have been administered and supported. Can’t you feel the love?:

The Department of Corrections. Take a map incorrectly labeling Afghanistan as Iran, add Prince Harry, and you have rather humorous correction. From the September 9 edition of The Arizona Republic:

Rebekah Brooks’ husband speaks out

“Charlie Brooks, husband of former News International chief executive Rebekah, may be facing a charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice (alongside his wife), but it hasn’t stopped him giving a lengthy newspaper interview.” — The Guardian

Phone-hack journo bailed

“A journalist arrested by police probing the alleged hacking of stolen mobile phones has been bailed, officers say. The man, 33, held after an appointment at a south London police station on Friday, will return in November.” — BBC

How journalists should write their Twitter bios

“It’s well documented that Twitter helps journalists do their work better. I have shared, for example, how journalism educators can teach students to live tweet campus events. Too bad, though, that some current and aspiring journalists waste another great Twitter opportunity: taking advantage of their twesume.” — Poynter