Mediagazer: Sports site The Athletic says it has more than 100K subscribers who are charged either $5 a month or $60 per year; skeptics say subscription model is risky (Benjamin Mullin/Wall Street Journal)

12:10 AM ET, June 5, 2018

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Apple adds browse tab to Apple News to help users find new topics, new channels, and stories from publishers, is adding new sidebar to News and Stocks on iPad — Apple is adding a new browse tab and sidebar to its Apple News curation of articles, the company said Monday at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California.

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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:

Sports site The Athletic says it has more than 100K subscribers who are charged either $5 a month or $60 per year; skeptics say subscription model is risky — Premium salaries lure writers; skeptics caution business model is risky — Stephen Curry, the star point guard for the Golden State Warriors …

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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:

Discovery signs $2B deal with PGA Tour for international broadcast rights through 2030, will develop a PGA Tour-branded OTT streaming service — Discovery and the PGA Tour have struck a massive $2 billion deal for tournament rights outside of the United States through 2030.

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How comment hosting service Disqus, which gets ~2B unique visitors/month and supports anonymous comments, is losing its battle against trolls and hate speech — The commenting giant Disqus has said repeatedly that it doesn't allow hate speech. But its platform is overrun with trolls, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis.

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism hires ex-Gizmodo Media Group CEO Raju Narisetti to run its Knight-Bagehot program for business journalists — The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism has hired Raju Narisetti to run its Knight-Bagehot program for business journalists.

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NYT journalists behind “The ISIS Files” answer readers' questions about the methods and ethics of collecting and publishing the 15K Islamic State documents — Rukmini Callimachi joined The New York Times in March 2014 as a foreign correspondent, covering Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

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The Verge:

Apple to bring live sports, news, and access to Charter Spectrum channels to Apple TV; iTunes Movies and Apple TV 4K will offer Dolby Atmos — Along with better support for cable companies like Spectrum — Apple announced some new features for its Apple TV set-top box during WWDC today.

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Columbia Journalism Review:

Study of editors at 135 of the largest English-language newspapers in the US finds 73% are male, 90% white, 60% have a journalism degree, and 7% went to an Ivy — The editors of 135 of the country's biggest English-language newspapers are a well-educated bunch: Almost a third have an advanced degree …

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Sarah Jones / Columbia Journalism Review:

Journalists discuss the hardships of entering the business with low-income backgrounds and the difficulty in placing stories on poverty and class — How journalism got so out of touch with the people it covers — To become a journalist, Rajaa Elidrissi knew she would need a strategy.

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:

TV viewing in America peaked to ~9 hours per day in 2010, and remains at about 8 hours per day today despite Netflix, Amazon Prime, Facebook Video, and YouTube — With Netflix and Amazon Prime, Facebook Video and YouTube, it's tempting to imagine that the tech industry destroyed TV.

Discussion: @alexismadrigal

Jason Lynch / Adweek:

Nickelodeon President Cyma Zarghami steps down after more than 30 years at the company, 10 years at the helm, COO Sarah Levy named interim president — Sarah Levy will take over on an interim basis as the company searches for her successor — For the second time in two weeks …

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