1. How St. Louis’ alt-weekly is covering the chaos in Ferguson (Benjamin Mullin / Poynter)
2. The newest important person in newsrooms: audience-development czars (Lucia Moses / Digiday)
3. Simple.tv now lets you share your DVR recordings with your cord-cutting friends (Janko Roettgers / GigaOm)
4. How Deca is taking a collaborative approach to longform (Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk)
5. The future of mobile apps for news (Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note)