MediaGuardian’s top stories
ITN switches Channel 5 News pay to ‘merit-based’ system
Viceland UK scores zero ratings on some nights after Sky TV launch
Yahoo secretly monitored emails on behalf of the US government – report
Why did the UK government act against a journalist on behalf of Syria? | Roy Greenslade
Westworld review – HBO’s seamless marriage of robot cowboys and corporate dystopia
You’re the Worst’s Aya Cash: ‘There’s bad stuff about all of us’
Best of the rest
Helen Boaden speaks up for ‘slow news’ as she steps down after 34 years at the BBC (Press Gazette)
Yahoo vice-president recruited by Telegraph to new COO role (Press Gazette)
Salaries of US TV’s top-paid talent revealed (Variety)
BBC1 explores ‘generation rent’ with three-part series (Broadcast)
Yahoo rebrands its main app as Yahoo Newsroom, lets you post your own news links (TechCrunch)
Graydon Carter assails nemesis Donald Trump in Vanity Fair column (CNN)
Discovery agrees estimated £800m long-term ad sales deal with Sky (Campaign, £)
And finally...
Things got rather out of hand on Egyptian TV on Friday when two guests physically attacked each other in a row over Islamic religious law. Not unlike an episode of Jeremy Kyle, then – except we haven’t seen shoes flying on the ITV show yet.
