1. Meet Val Broeksmit, the singer Sony is threatening to sue over hacking tweets (Chris O’Brien / VentureBeat)
2. North Korea appears to be back online (Barb Darrow / GigaOm)
3. HuffPost plans to drop AP stories, relaunch site in 2015 (Joe Pompeo / Capital New York)
4. The year in media: 12 reasons why we should be optimistic (Mathew Ingram / GigaOm)
5. Social Media and the Rise of the Islamic State in 2014 (Joe Galvin / Storyful)
6. Behind the Daily Paywall: The Site that Pays You to Read Pirated Articles (Brian Merchant / Motherboard)