Mediagazer: Reporter's Tumblr gets him barred from RNC party (Chase Hoffberger/Daily Dot)

5:00 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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Richard Lawson / The Atlantic Wire:

Katie Couric's Talk Show Sure Sounds Weird — Chased out of nighttime news and probably too tired for morning TV, America's favorite sassy personality, Katie Couric, is launching her own daytime talk show. Something in the afternoon, in the in-between, nice and simple. Or is it so simple?

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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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