Mediagazer: How reporters can beat the convention-hall wisdom (Dan Kennedy/Media Nation)

7:00 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: Media Decoder, @keachhagey, Syracuse Post-Standard, 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, NetNewsCheck Latest, @sganim, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @sganim, @romenesko, @sganim, @sganim, @keachhagey, @sganim, @sganim, @bydanielvictor, @natives, @poynter, @kevglobal and FishbowlNY

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 …

Discussion: @dylanbyers, FishbowlNY, New York Magazine, Gawker, Poynter, @jeremyscahill, Boing Boing, @ggreenwald, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Talking Points Memo and The Huffington Post

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: mediabistro.com, Politico, The Daily Beast, Examiner, Poynter, Media Decoder, The Huffington Post, The Caucus and Erik Wemple

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, CJR, Mediaite, Capital New York, Gawker and The Huffington Post

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 …

Discussion: MinOnline and Media Decoder

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 …

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

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.”