1. Rolling Stone moves beyond the fray (Ravi Somaiya / New York Times)
2. Twitter blocks access to political transparency organization Politwoops (via Guardian)
3. How the New York Times gets a 70 percent open rate on its newsletters (Lucia Moses / Digiday)
4. A three-way, mostly civilized family contest to become the next publisher of the Times (Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine)
5. The value of slow journalism in the age of instant information (Michael Blanding / Nieman Reports)
6. Mobile readers abound; the ads, not so much (Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal)