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6:00 AM ET, September 28, 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
Steven Pinker / Wall Street Journal:
The ‘curse of knowledge’ leads writers to assume their readers know everything they know  —  The ‘curse of knowledge’ leads writers to assume their readers know everything they know  —  Why is so much writing so bad?  Why is it so hard to understand a government form …
Discussion: Forbes
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 …
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: Telegraph, VICE News, Bloomberg and ABC News
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.”
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 …
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 …
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
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.
 
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
As Roku grows, it's moving towards pay-to-play for successful channels
Discussion: FierceCable
Laurie Oakes / HeraldSun:
Proposed Australian anti-terror law could send journalists to jail for doing their jobs
Discussion: CNET and Guardian
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Comcast's Netflix competitor Streampix no longer stand-alone offering, now part of Xfinity TV
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Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:
Amazon's deal to acquire Twitch for $970M is now complete
Discussion: gameinformer.com and VentureBeat
Anne Helen Petersen / BuzzFeed:
Here's Why The New York Times Television Coverage Is So Bad
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Syrian Activists Report From ISIS-Controlled City News Outlets Can't Reach
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Thom Yorke releases album via BitTorrent Bundle with free single and video, $6 album