The Breakfast Meeting: More Papers Cut and the Navy Seal Story Leaks Out

August 29, 2012, 10:58 am

By THE EDITORS

Newhouse has ended daily distribution of two more of its newspapers, The Post-Standard in Syracuse, and The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., which won a Pulitzer Prize this year for its coverage of the Penn State sexual abuse scandal. Both papers will merge their content with Web sites and publish three times a week.

The conservative Web site Judicial Watch obtained documents showing that C.I.A. press officials discussed co-operating with the filmmakers Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow on their movie version of the killing of Osama Bin Laden. “I know we don't pick favorites but it makes sense to get behind a winning horse,” wrote one C.I.A. spokeswoman according to the emails. The documents can be found he re.

Marketers are licking their chops for the season kick-off of the National Football League, which has become not just the biggest thing on television but for many advertisers, the most efficient marketing delivery system, as well.

The cable powerhouse ESPN, which already owns its piece of the N.F.L. with its lucrative Monday night broadcasts and its seemingly neverending coverage of the league, doubled down on baseball, as well. The network has extended its deal with Major League Baseball until 2021 for about $700 million a season â€" double what it pays now.

Dutton has decided to move up publication of “No Easy Day” the first-person account of a Navy Seal member who participated in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. The publisher, an imprint of Penguin, has also increased the first printing for the book, which is already No. 1 on the bestseller lists of Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Associated Press obtained an early copy of the book, which sugg ests that Bin Laden did not present an imminent threat when he was killed, contrary to official accounts of the raid.

The New York Times found itself in the news twice Tuesday. First, it was revealed in the documents requested by Judicial Watch that the Times reporter Mark Mazzetti sent an advance copy of a Maureen Dowd column to a C.I.A. spokesperson.

Second, the company announced that Sally Singer, editor of the high-profile fashion magazine T, would be leaving the magazine and the company at the end of the month. The magazine had been struggling to maintain its luxury advertising revenue.