1. Verizon-AOL, Facebook Instant Articles, and the future of digital advertising (Ben Thompson / Stratechery)
2. Snapchat will feature weekly content from MLB and baseball fans (Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal)
3. Why Facebook’s Internet.org is stumbling in India (Kurt Wagner & Mark Bergen / Re/code)
4. The Onion uses its redesign to mock all other web redesigns (Margaret Rhodes / Wired)
5. Notes on the surrender at Menlo Park (John Herrman / The Awl)
6. VCs take the media (Jacob Silverman / The Baffler)