On this week’s episode, Megan Greenway editor-in-chief of Gizmodo Media's sports site Deadspin challenges the 'toy department' misconception of sports journalism, sets her Twitter filters against the trolls and focuses on the work instead of a dysfunctional parent company.

In the news round-up, the team take a cynical look at what the changing of the guard at the Daily Mail means for the brand, and whether a 'European Netflix' is viable. Peter takes an unexpected turn against paywalls.

We're reading:

- ‘Britain's biggest Local TV company has "gamed" the BBC for hundreds of thousands of pounds of licence fee payers' money’, via Buzzfeed https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/revealed-how-britains-biggest-local-tv-company-has-gamed

- 'Study: Apple News’s human editors prefer a few major newsrooms', via CJR https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/study-apple-newss-human-editors-prefer-a-few-major-newsrooms.php

- 'Rip it Up: The Story of Scottish Pop at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh', via The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/6e42643c-6a5a-11e8-9c53-0e2cb45ebb16