Mediagazer: Seattle Times, Pro Publica, NPR take home 2014 Online Journalism Awards (Jeremiah Patterson/Online News …)

11:10 PM ET, September 27, 2014

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Jeremiah Patterson / Online News Association:

Seattle Times, Pro Publica, NPR take home 2014 Online Journalism Awards — CHICAGO — Coverage of natural disasters and health care as well as the making of a T-shirt took top honors Saturday night at the 2014 Online Journalism Awards, which ended the Online News Association Conference.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and @raju

Wall Street Journal:

Softbank in Talks to Acquire DreamWorks Animation — Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank Corp. is in talks to acquire DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Variety, Deadline and Hollywood Reporter

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

What's changed at the NYT since the leaked innovation report, according to NYT staffers at ONA conference session — How the NYT innovation report came to be — Amy O'Leary's first thought when she heard The New York Times' innovation report had been leaked was “S**t, I'm going to get fired.”

Discussion: BuzzFeed, @poynter, @amyoleary, @amyoleary, @amyoleary, @rsm, @digiphile, @derekwillis, @karaswisher, @macloo, @pmarca, @abeaujon and @antderosa

Brian Knowlton / New York Times:

US State Department fights ISIS social media propaganda with accounts like @ThinkAgain_DOS — Digital War Takes Shape on Websites Over ISIS — WASHINGTON — Along with its surprising military success, the Islamic State group has demonstrated a skill and sophistication with social media previously unseen in extremist groups.

Discussion: Bloomberg, VICE News, ABC News and Telegraph

Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:

Managing a Nightmare: How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb — Eighteen years after it was published, “Dark Alliance,” the San Jose Mercury News's bombshell investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua's Contra rebels, and African American neighborhoods in California …

Discussion: @ggreenwald, @jayrosen_nyu, @brendan_fischer, @ggreenwald, Columbia Journalism Review and SN&R Weekly Contents

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

How experiments with online services in '80s led newspapers to believe the web wasn't a serious threat in the '90s — Newspapers weren't late to online news — they were way too early — When a new technology is invented, there's often a lot of doubt about its utility.

Discussion: @mattyglesias and @ruthoutspoken

Rebecca Greenfield / Fast Company:

The (Surprisingly Profitable) Rise Of Podcast Networks — In the third episode of StartUp, the podcast about starting a podcast business, host and aspiring entrepreneur Alex Blumberg has a breakdown. — “I spent three f**king thousand dollars today,” he complains to his wife. “As I'm about to quit my job!

Discussion: Washington Post, Thanks:@jakeshapiro

Alexis Sobel Fitts / Columbia Journalism Review:

How Facebook is changing who gets paid for your work — Content curators and aggregators aren't going away — In 2009, Wired's then-executive editor, Chris Anderson, released a book with a daunting prediction. In Free: The Future of A Radical Price, Anderson claimed that the open-air marketplace …

John Ourand / SportsBusiness Daily:

An Inside Look At ESPN's Decision To Suspend Bill Simmons For Goodell Comments … It was around 5:00pm ET Wednesday afternoon when Marie Donoghue, one of ESPN's highest-ranking female execs, picked up the phone in the network's Manhattan office to call Bill Simmons.

Discussion: ESPN, The Dish, @ceisenhood, @joshmartinnba and Columbia Journalism Review

Anne Helen Petersen / BuzzFeed:

Here's Why The New York Times Television Coverage Is So Bad — How did the New York Times, the national paper of record, and the recipient of 114 Pulitzer Prizes, find itself with the worst television criticism section of any mainstream, popular publication?

Craig Silverman / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:

News in the Grey: Rumors and Debunkings in Online Media — Our new fellow, Craig Silverman, launched his research project at the Online News Association conference in Chicago this week. The timing was perfect: It's been a big week for rumors and debunkings. — On Monday this week there were rumors that:

Discussion: @emilybell and The Atlantic Online

Rafat Ali / rafat.org:

This Vertical Life: The Media Models I Admire — Verticals have a particular attraction for me, which may have something to do with my general obsessiveness. Picking a topic you're willing to spend a good number of years in, going deep into it with everything you have …

Discussion: @jasonhirschhorn, @rafat, @zseward, @hsherman and @athorsheim