Afternoon media notes

Unstable markets have stalled a deal for MediaNews Group Inc. to buy Freedom Communications Inc.'s newspapers, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
Contessa Brewer, a fixture on MSNBC since 2003, will no longer be an anchor on the network, says TV Newser.
Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman will be a guest with with Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown on today's PBS Newshour.
The New York Times joins the media flotilla of Los Angeles River boaters, a little later than most. And makes a crawl of Los Angeles coffee spots.
The Manhattan Beach duplex where Thomas Pynchon is more or less confirmed to have lived in the late sixties and early seventies closed escrow, Curbed LA reports.
KCET will air a half-hour documentary, "In Search of the California Condor," that was shot on 16mm film in 1945, on Sept. 4 at 8 p.m.
Elizabeth Aguilera, a former Long Beach Press-Telegram reporter who covers immigration and demographics for the San Diego Union, is among the winners of the 2011 Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships for coverage of violence and trauma.
Michael Dawson of Dawson's Books will moderate a panel discussion with Los Angeles photography collectors on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Stephen Cohen Gallery on Beverly Boulevard.