1. The Facebook effect on the news (Derek Thompson / The Atlantic)
2. U.S. plummets in global press freedom rankings (Josh Stearns / Free Press)
3. BuzzFeed’s native advertising: Ads you want to share? (Henry Taylor / The Media Briefing)
4. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions teams up with Al-Monitor for web specials (Nick Vivarelli / Variety)
5. Are publishers overselling social traffic at the expense of search? (Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab)
6. The day the Internet didn’t fight back (Nicole Perlroth / New York Times)