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2:15 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 …
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 …
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Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:
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.
Discussion: Gawker and The Huffington Post
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Times-Picayune will face new print competitor on Saturdays
Discussion: New Orleans
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 …
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 …
 
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Associated Press:
Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks Suspect, Returns To Military Court
Oliver Wright / The Independent:
Leveson witnesses are warned what to expect as report is finalised
Discussion: Press Gazette
Reuters:
Captured Turkish journalist appears on Syrian TV
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney team of ‘Mad Men’ creates ads to sell nation on candidate
Luke Allnutt / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
With WikiLeaks On Ice, What Has Happened To All Those Digital Whistleblowers?
Discussion: Charlie Beckett
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Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Monday Q&A: Josh Miller on Branch, comments as content, and the state of online discourse
Jim Romenesko:
Jonathan Krim is named MarketWatch acting editor
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Shooting victim's brother criticizes media for ‘horrific journalism’
Discussion: CBS News, CBS New York and Gothamist
Hazel Sheffield / CJR:
Pasadena publisher launches a system for outsourcing local news