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7:00 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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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 …
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?
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 …
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.
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
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.”
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Jest
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: GigaOM and The Awl
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.”
 
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