1. British newspaper has advantages in battle with government over secrets (NYT)
2. Fear of NSA surveillance is having a chilling effect on the open web (GigaOm)
3. Facebook leads an effort to lower barriers to internet access (NYT)
4. Washington Post considered using robot sportswriters (Poynter)
5. A look at Storyful’s Open Newsroom verification project (Journalism.co.uk)
6. San Francisco paper made $500k with pay wall before taking it down (Guardian)