Mag world view: Johnston merges print & digital; category sales; Fry: Facebook is publisher; public editor no more at NYT

• Johnston Press merges print and digital operation to build on online audience growth (Press Gazette)
• Hearst Magazines Drives Toward Category Sales (Folio:)
• The AP Stylebook now includes new guidelines on data (requesting it, scraping it, reporting on it, and publishing it) (Nieman Journalism Lab)
• Stephen Fry: Facebook and other platforms should be classed as publishers  (Guardian)
• The New York Times is eliminating the position of public editor; here’s the Sulzberger memo (Nieman Journalism Lab)