Mediagazer: What The New York Times should do next: membership (Rex Sorgatz/Nieman Journalism Lab)

11:30 PM ET, August 28, 2012

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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.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Syracuse Post-Standard, The Patriot-News, @keachhagey, @joseiswriting and The Newspaper Guild

Lindsay Kalter / American Journalism Review:

The Ann Arbor Precedent — Three years before it announced it was taking a digital-first approach and cutting back on print publishing at papers in New Orleans and three other states, Newhouse's Advance Publications adopted a similar MO in Ann Arbor, Michigan. How has it worked out?

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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Rex Sorgatz / Nieman Journalism Lab:

What The New York Times should do next: membership — Over three years ago, I wrote a blog post about what I thought The New York Times should do to survive the collapse of advertising. “Micropayment, Reimagined” proposed a series of “passes” that a consumer could purchase to access the Times' online content at incremental levels.

Discussion: TeleRead and The Awl

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why newspapers need to get to know their readers better — We've pointed out before how Facebook and Twitter face the same kind of problem that the mainstream media industry is struggling with — namely, finding enough advertising revenue to make up for the fact that they are essentially giving away …

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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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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 …

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Erik Maza / WWD: Ad Pages Slip Further at New York Times' Magazines

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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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
News Outlets Stay Alert but in Place

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Wall Street Journal rolls out video network powered by smartphone-toting journalists — Since news organizations are paying all that money for journalists to carry around iPhones, why not put them to better use? — The Wall Street Journal is launching a new streaming-video product that does just that.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, eMedia Vitals, Digiday, Mashable! and BtoB Magazine

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 …

Discussion: Akron Beacon Journal, OhioStateBuckeyes.com and Off the Bench

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 …

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Media Decoder:

Magazines You Miss: From Skateboarder to Metropolitan Home, but Mainly Gourmet — After more than 140 responses, what can we conclude from the answers of Media Decoder readers to the question, what magazine do you miss the most? — Gourmet, which published its last issue in November 2009 …

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Videos to go at 'Tube — Google's YouTube is getting ready to say bye-bye to some losers. The search giant that kicked off an ambitious plan last February to establish dozens of professionally produced channels — most of which received some of the $100 million in initial funding handed …

Discussion: Radio & Television …, SocialTimes and Hollywood Reporter