1. Twitter and YouTube blocked in Turkey over hostage photos (Graham Cluley / WeLiveSecurity)
2. John Oliver makes Edward Snowden squirm on ‘Last Week Tonight’ (Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast) [VID]
3. Rolling Stone’s investigation: “A failure that was avoidable” (Sheila Coronel, Steve Coll & Derek Kravitz / Columbia Journalism Review)
4. A dumb job: On the 60-year history of the anchorman (Frank Rich / New York Magazine)
5. Meet Mexico’s crowdfunding campaign against censorship and bots (Milton Ramirez / Global Voices)
6. What’s your biggest IT security risk? Look in the mirror (Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code)
7. Inside the New York Times’ newsletter strategy (Benjamin Mullin / Poynter)