Mediagazer: Barnes & Noble Moves Away From Bookstores For UK Nook Launch: John Lewis Dept Store Named First Partner (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

10:40 AM ET, August 28, 2012

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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 …

Discussion: Poynter, @bydanielvictor, @natives, @sganim, @sganim and @sganim

Sara Ganim / @sganim:

The Patriot-News is moving to a model like NOLA, will begin to print 3days/wk beginning in Jan. w ‘all-in’ effort on digital side.

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.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Poynter, Politico, Examiner, The Huffington Post, The Caucus, Erik Wemple and Media Decoder

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.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Study: Most campaign coverage written by men — Seventy-six percent of articles about the GOP primary and 72 percent of articles about the presidential campaign were written by men, according to a press release from the Women's Media Center. The Fourth Estate compiled the data …

Discussion: Women's Media Center, The Huffington Post and Forbes

Associated Press:

Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks Suspect, Returns To Military Court — FORT MEADE, Md. — The case of an Army private accused of leaking classified information is returning to a military courtroom. A three-day pretrial hearing begins Tuesday for Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is accused of sending hundreds …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Barnes & Noble Moves Away From Bookstores For UK Nook Launch: John Lewis Dept Store Named First Partner — More developments on Barnes & Noble's plans to launch its Nook devices in the UK, the first market outside of the U.S. to see the e-readers and tablets: today the company has announced …

Discussion: paidContent, Business Wire, Pocket-lint, TechnoBuffalo and Good E-Reader

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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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.”

Oliver Wright / The Independent:

Leveson witnesses are warned what to expect as report is finalised — All those lined up for criticism by Lord Justice Leveson have now been warned what to expect in his final report, The Independent understands. In a sign that the long-running inquiry into press standards is nearing completion …

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Reuters:

Captured Turkish journalist appears on Syrian TV — A Turkish cameraman who went missing while reporting from Syria appeared on Monday in an interview with a pro-government Syrian television channel and said he had been seized by Syrian soldiers in the northern city of Aleppo.

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Hazel Sheffield / CJR:

Pasadena publisher launches a system for outsourcing local news — “I'm looking for individuals I can pay a lower rate to do a lot of work,” says Journtent founder James Macpherson — A publisher in Pasadena, CA, who said he received death threats when he started hiring workers in India …

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