1. BBC launches Taster to incubate content, technology ideas (Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter)
2. The war on leaks has gone way too far when journalists’ emails are under surveillance (Trevor Timm / Guardian)
3. Sling TV, Dish’s $20 web TV service, rolls out today. Here’s what it’s like (Peter Kafka / Re/code)
4. Why Vox Media makes content just for social media (Lucia Moses / Digiday)
5. How virtual reality ate the Sundance Film Festival (Casey Newton & Bryan Bishop / The Verge)
6. The rise of TV’s second season (John Jurgensen / Wall Street Journal)