1. The rise of the mobile editor (Mario Garcia / Poynter)
2. Chatting in secret while we’re all being watched (Micah Lee / The Intercept)
3. News site Water Deeply will tackle the California drought crisis (Sarah Lawson / Fast Company)
4. What are they thinking? Rafat Ali’s go long, go deep vertical strategy (Ken Doctor / Capital New York)
5. With a new multimedia project, CNN Digital is finding odd, small stories from around the country (Kristen Hare / Poynter)
6. Amazon confirms first original movie is directed by Spike Lee (Napier Lopez / The Next Web)