1. NPR gets $17 million in grants to expand coverage and develop digital platform (Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times)
2. Data journalism MOOCs offer new options for distributed learning (Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism)
3. Report: Readers who own a Kindle spend $1233/year on Amazon; those who don’t spend $790 (Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD)
4. Beyoncé rejects tradition for social media’s power (Ben Sisario / New York Times)
5. The tablet magazine ship is sinking. Fast. (Eddie Vassallo / GigaOm)
6. 61.5% of web traffic is not human (Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic)