1. Roku and Chromecast go head-to-head in streaming race, Apple TV falling behind (Janko Roettgers / GigaOm)
2. The Dallas Morning News abandons its “premium experience” strategy (Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab)
3. Jay Rosen to journalists and editors: ‘Facebook has all the power. You have almost none’ (Julie Posetti / WAN-IFRA)
4. Long all-volunteer, Guernica Mag looks toward paying its contributors (Julie Lasson Fromowitz / Columbia Journalism Review)
5. There’s “no congestion,” Verizon says, despite continued Netflix problems (Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica)
6. The premium Emmys: Pay-TV services dominate nominations (Alex Weprin / Capital New York)