But the presidential "assent" was announced Sunday in the government-controlled newspaper, The Sunday Mail.
But the Glasgow-based Sunday Mail, Scotland's biggest weekly, rose less than 4% in the year that its main rival closed.
This round-up of today's main media stories includes heated debate in Scotland over journalists' job cuts at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail.
Responding, Alex Salmond urged all parties to work together to ensure that the Daily Record and Sunday Mail were given every support available.
Proposed cuts to the number of journalists at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail newspapers were raised in the Scottish Parliament yesterday, at First Minister's Questions.
Professor Hugh Pennington was speaking after a report, published in the Sunday Mail, said low quality beef was passed off as lamb in one in three curries tested by the Food Standards Agency.
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The Sunday Mail, the Sunday Post and Scotland on Sunday all saw their sales drop below key milestones: The Sunday Mail's circulation fell below 300, 000, the Post's below 250, 000 and Scotland on Sunday's below 40, 000.
Last year nearly 100 jobs were cut at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail in Glasgow while in 2010 the bulk of staff at the Sunday Times in Glasgow lost their jobs when the paper scaled back its Scottish edition.
The group, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The People, Daily Record and Sunday Mail, as well as 160 local and regional newspapers, has struggled to cope with falling circulations and the transfer of classified advertising to the internet.
The other publications named in the report are: the Sunday Mirror, Daily Sport, The People, Daily Mail's Weekend Magazine, Sunday Express, The Sun, Closer magazine, Sunday Sport, Mail on Sunday's Night and Day, News of the World, Daily Express, Sunday Business News, Daily Record, the Express' Saturday, Sunday Mirror Magazine, Real Magazine, Daily Mirror Magazine, Mail in Ireland, Daily Star, Marie Claire, Personal Magazine and Sunday World.
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Mr Dacre, also editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Mail and the Mail on Sunday, said he would withdraw the "smears" statement if Grant withdrew his claims the Daily Mail or Mail on Sunday were involved in phone hacking.
In a statement the Blairs expressed frustration that their wish to keep the ceremony private had been ignored by the publication of pictures in the Sunday Mirror, The People and the Mail On Sunday.
On Sunday, Daily Mail and General Trust said it was in talks over the future of its Northcliffe Media local media arm.
"I have asked that this analysis describe the options MIT had and the decisions MIT made, " he said in an e-mail Sunday to members of the MIT community.
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Obama will watch her speech from Kansas City, Missouri, where he's scheduled to campaign the following day, according to an e-mail Sunday to the campaign's traveling press corps from spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
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The Mail on Sunday's Matt Sandy says that three flats have been bought by named individuals.
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Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens told the Daily Politics it was not just a problem for Scotland.
"It's the same old point that feminism has gone too far, " says Mail on Sunday columnist Suzanne Moore.
Mr Alderson was a freelance journalist working to provide the story to the Mail on Sunday, the court heard.
On Wednesday, Southwark Crown Court heard she had subsequently taken her story to the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Times.
The jury was told about emails between Ms Briscoe and Mr Alderson, and Mail on Sunday news editor David Dillon.
In an interview in the Mail on Sunday, David Cameron said he wanted to stop workers resenting people on benefits.
Lord Levy's comments came in an interview with the Mail on Sunday, timed to coincide with the serialisation of his memoirs.
Previously, Mr Dacre accused Grant of making "mendacious smears" after he claimed a Mail on Sunday story came from illicit eavesdropping.
Icstis spokesman Rob Dwight said the regulator would ask to view the evidence that led to the Mail on Sunday article.
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"If I had taken one more knock, I would have ended up paralysed, or even dead, " he told the Mail on Sunday.
Satellite tracking will be used to monitor the movements of a serial sex attacker, according to the Scottish Mail on Sunday .
Meanwhile, Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed criticism of the fall in GCSE results in an article in the Mail on Sunday.
The Mail on Sunday said that it was Lord Browne who had "made his private life a public issue" by lying in court.
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