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

2:20 PM ET, August 28, 2012

Top News:

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: The Patriot-News, @joseiswriting and The Newspaper Guild

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 …

Discussion: @sganim, JIMROMENESKO.COM, FishbowlNY, @sganim, @sganim, @romenesko, @sganim, @sganim, @keachhagey, @sganim, @sganim, @bydanielvictor, @natives, @poynter and @kevglobal

Keach Hagey / @keachhagey: “It's likely that there will be fewer employees at the new organizations,” says Advance. Will know # of cuts in weeks. http://is.gd/dfUfBA

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 …

Discussion: New York Magazine, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @jeremyscahill, @ggreenwald and The Huffington Post

Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:

UPDATE: Managing ed Dean Baquet on @MarkMazzettiNYT: “I can't go into in detail. But... t's much ado about nothing.” http://politi.co/OHarCs

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: Politico, Media Decoder, Examiner, Poynter, 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: Gawker and The Huffington Post

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.”

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.”

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.

Discussion: Forbes and @joshhalliday

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

Marc Tracy / The New Republic:

The Tweeps on the Bus — IT'S EASY TO FORGET that eight months ago BuzzFeed didn't even have a politics section. The website was known primarily for posting goofy and/or heart-warming lists created expressly for readers to share on social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Discussion: The Corsair

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, International Business Times, The Huffington Post and Forbes