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7:35 PM ET, September 28, 2014

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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.
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Polish newspaper launches interactive data journalism platform  —  Gazeta Wyborcza set up BIQdata.pl, ‘the first website of its kind’ in Poland, to offer more visuals and interactive data analysis to its subscribers  —  Credit: By Luke Legay on Flickr.  Some rights reserved.
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: @raju and Los Angeles Times
Dan Froomkin / The Intercept:
Non-denial denials: carefully chosen words can mislead, as CIA director's case shows  —  Anatomy of a Non-Denial Denial  —  The non-denial denial is an art that takes many forms in official Washington.  —  The basic idea is that when you or your organization are accused of doing something …
Brady Dale / Columbia Journalism Review:
How tech reporters can deepen their beat  —  Ask a tech journalist about the latest cool features from the likes of Google Maps or Spotify, and they are likely not only to be able to rattle them off, but also to give astute opinions about whether those features position a product for success.
Discussion: @s_m_i
Trevor Timm / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Eric Holder was the worst Attorney General for the press in a generation.  We deserve better.  —  Attorney General Eric Holder announced he would resign yesterday, after serving as the nation's top law enforcement official since President Obama came into office in 2009.
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 and @maggieshiels, Thanks:@jakeshapiro
 
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