1. Attempts to obscure data collection and preserve anonymity (Mary Madden & Lee Rainie / Pew Research)
2. Sunlight Foundation, Melody Kramer, and 20 other media/tech projects get Knight Prototype Funds (Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab)
3. For mobile messaging, GIFs prove to be worth at least a thousand words (Mike Isaac / New York Times)
4. How one Florida paper is doing better work—with a happier newsroom (Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review)
5. Theft, lies, and Facebook video (Hank Green / Medium)
6. Of drones and men (Elizabeth Spayd / The Open Mind) [VID]