Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can’t-miss must-reads of the past week:
How Netflix reverse engineered Hollywood — Alexis Madrigal built his own genre generator
Ezra Klein rumored to be leaving WaPo — “Though the atmosphere within The Post was described as civilized, one person said, there has been some awkwardness”
Surviving anxiety — The Atlantic‘s editor on how he came to terms with the nation’s most common mental illness
Sign of the Times — Nicholas Kristof drops the middle initial from his byline
You won’t believe what viral content does to news — The fastest-growing forms of online ‘content’ are click-bait headlines and videos
The top 10 ‘Top 10’ lists of 2013 — A year of listmaking
The Editors are the staffers of the Columbia Journalism Review.