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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Patriot-News, Post-Standard will reduce print frequency to three days a week — The Harrisburg Patriot-News, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Penn State scandal, and The Syracuse, N.Y., Post-Standard are following their corporate sibling the New Orleans Times-Picayune to a reduced printing schedule.
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Media Decoder, Syracuse Post-Standard, The Patriot-News, @joseiswriting and The Newspaper Guild
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The Patriot-News:
Patriot-News and PennLive.com will merge to form PA Media Group — The Patriot-News and Pennlive.com will merge into one news-gathering and advertising organization — PA Media Group — with the goal of better serving the changing demands of readers and advertisers in this increasingly digital age …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NYT reporter leaked advance copy of Maureen Dowd column to CIA — Newly available CIA records obtained by Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group, reveal that New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti forwarded an advance copy of one of his articles to a CIA spokesperson …
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FishbowlNY, New York Magazine, JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Huffington Post, @ggreenwald and @jeremyscahill
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
News Outlets Stay Alert but in Place — TAMPA, Fla. — As a huge storm churned toward New Orleans, the country's major television news divisions found themselves torn between covering two rapidly unfolding stories almost 700 miles apart. — In most cases, they were opting not to turn their anchors into storm chasers.
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Politico, Examiner, Poynter, The Caucus, The Huffington Post, Media Decoder and Erik Wemple
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
How reporters can beat the convention-hall wisdom — The media — all 15,000-plus reporters, photographers, editors, producers and assorted hangers-on who've descended on this unlovely, brutally humid old city — are having a nervous breakdown. And you're invited to watch.
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Gawker and The Huffington Post
Erik Maza / WWD:
Ad Pages Slip Further at New York Times' Magazines — NO UPTURN: Sally Singer opened the most recent issue of T The New York Times Magazine with a tribute to leisurely evolutions. “You realize that even when taste is a given, patience is a virtue,” she wrote.
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Amy Wicks / WWD:
Sally Singer Out at T — Sally Singer is out as editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Singer joined the Times back in July 2010 after a long run at Vogue as fashion news and features director. At the time, she succeeded Stefano Tonchi who left T to become editor in chief of W …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Evening Edition, an afternoon paper for a mobile world — Mike Monteiro is well known on the Internet for his sardonic and weird sense of humor. He is also known for being a designer (his firm Mule Design helped us out on NewTeeVee and GigaOM Pro) and as the author of the book “Design Is A Job.”
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Ohio State forbids reporters to tweet during press conferences — Before football coach Urban Meyer's press conference Monday, Ohio State spokesman Jerry Emig laid down a ground rule for reporters: No using Twitter during Meyer's conferences. — Akron Beacon Journal reporter Jason Lloyd says the move …
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Akron Beacon Journal, Off the Bench and OhioStateBuckeyes.com
Dylan Byers / Politico:
National Review attacks PolitiFact — TAMPA, Fla. — The editors at the National Review are cautioning voters to ignore PolitiFact ratings on this week's convention speakers, citing the fact-checking organization's past rulings on Medicare as evidence that “PolitiFact can't be trusted to get the story right.”
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Sun Times reviews Armstrong ‘liar and cheat’ libel payout — The Sunday Times has revealed that the terms of its costly 2004 legal settlement with Lance Armstrong are likely to be reviewed in the wake of news the cyclist will not contest doping charges against him.
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Forbes and @joshhalliday
Chase Hoffberger / Daily Dot:
Reporter's Tumblr gets him barred from RNC party — Behold, a list of items supposedly prohibited at all Republican National Convention after parties: Hoodies, drugs, guns (maybe), and a Tumblr site. — That last prohibition arrives according to Kyle Kramer, a Chicago-based music writer …