Mediagazer: New York Times' latest hire part of evolving social media team (Mallary Jean Tenore/Poynter)

4:40 PM ET, June 5, 2012

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Howard Owens / CJR:

How David Simon is wrong about paywalls — Let me count the ways. Ten, in fact. — David Simon is a talented writer and storyteller, but is he qualified to give advice to publishers about how to save their dying industry? — As qualified as anybody else, I suppose.

Discussion: THE OUTSIDER, The Buttry Diary, @mathewi, @froomkin and @stevebuttry

Dylan Byers / Politico:

The American Prospect doesn't need angels — GQ's Marin Cogan reports today on the fate of The American Prospect, which recently told readers that if it couldn't raise $200,000, it was going to die. — It's not a terribly pretty picture: “On a recent Monday afternoon …

Marin Cogan / GQ:

“I'm sort of fatalistic ... It's in rich peoples' hands now”: The Last Days of The American Prospect? — It could have been an editorial meeting for any small political magazine in Washington. The staff of The American Prospect gathered for a daily web meeting in a large windowed corner office overlooking …

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Tribune search for CEO — Tribune Co. owners are again casting around for candidates to lead the troubled media outfit, which has been in Chapter 11 for more than three years. Former NBCUniversal boss Jeff Zucker is a leading candidate to run the debt-plagued newspaper and TV station company, sources said.

Discussion: Capital New York, JIMROMENESKO.COM and TVNewser

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

New York Times' latest hire part of evolving social media team — The New York Times' social media team is expanding, and ProPublica's Daniel Victor is its newest hire. — Victor, who is currently social media editor at ProPublica, announced yesterday that he's joining the Times …

Discussion: Gawker

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
New York Times Tacks on Two for Social Media, Values People Who Know Their Way Around Reddit

Discussion: The Commercial Observer

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

GOOD magazine addresses editorial staff layoffs — Since GOOD magazine laid off most of its editorial staff on Friday, I've called and emailed its owners multiple times requesting comment on what exactly their strategy is for the company; I received no response until late Monday.

Discussion: CJR and The Wrap

Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
What Happened to GOOD? — In five days, GOOD went …

Discussion: Poynter

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Rally and Open Letter Signal Pushback to a Less-Than-Daily Times-Picayune — On Monday a rally was held and an open letter was issued from people in New Orleans who believe that Advance Publications' decision to reduce the publishing schedule of The Times-Picayune to three days a week …

Discussion: MediaPost, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Gambit New Orleans News …, Forbes, @mathewi, JIMROMENESKO.COM, theind.com, The Huffington Post and Gambit New Orleans News …

Kevin Allen / PR Daily News:

Reporter pressing charges against PR chief in Honeywell debacle — It's unlikely that many communications positions have the phrase “may be asked to falsely imprison reporters” in the job description, but perhaps Honeywell will want to consider it after this past weekend.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, In These Times and Big News Network.com

Jim Romenesko:

New York Times Magazine editor: I don't think print will vanish — Hugo Lindgren (Photo: Neal Slavin) — > “15-year-old Hugo Lindgren would be pretty astounded that he had grown up to be editor of the Times Magazine, though maybe a little bummed that I hadn't turned out to be a rock star or a novelist.

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Dish/AMC fight breaks bad, channels banished to the 9,000s — OK, so who's geeked up for the upcoming fifth and final season premiere of AMC's Breaking Bad? — Lets just put it this way: In Englewood, Colo., where Dish Network is headquartered, nobody seems to be circling July 15 on their calendar.

Discussion: Radio & Television … and Deadline.com

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Jerry Sandusky trial starts today, with no tweeting or courtroom blogging — Jury selection begins today in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Gerald A. Sandusky, and reporters at the trial of the former Penn State assistant coach, who is accused of sexual assault of 10 boys, will not be able to tweet …

Discussion: msnbc.com

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Kobo launches e-book self-publishing platform, “Writing Life” — Digital reading company Kobo is launching a competitor to Amazon's KDP and Barnes & Noble's PubIt: Kobo Writing Life, a free self-publishing platform for independent authors and publishers. — Writing Life is in beta tests …

Discussion: PR Newswire and Kobo