Mediagazer: “I'm sort of fatalistic ... It's in rich peoples' hands now”: The Last Days of The American Prospect? (Marin Cogan/GQ)

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 …

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 Buttry Diary, @froomkin and @stevebuttry

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

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, theind.com, JIMROMENESKO.COM, The Huffington Post and Gambit New Orleans News …

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: The Wrap

Discussion: Poynter and Canadian Magazines

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

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

Discussion: The Commercial Observer

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

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Atlantic, Economist Duke It Out for Elites — When Atlantic Media nabbed a journalist from The Economist for its new digital business news brand, Quartz, the poach had broader significance. With the launch, Atlantic Media is opening up a second front in its battle with the Economist Group.

Discussion: Poynter and Talking Biz News

Erik Maza / WWD:

David Remnick Looks Into the Future — REMNICK'S CRYSTAL BALL: On Monday, David Remnick sat with Charlie Rose on CBS' “This Morning” for an old-hat discussion: What will The New Yorker look like in the future? — Much like it looks now, Remnick told Rose.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Walter Kirn joins The New Republic — The New Republic, on a hiring spree since it came under the ownership of Chris Hughes, has hired novelist and essayist Walter Kirn to serve as National Correspondent. — Kirn tells me he'll cover “politics and culture and their convergence,” and will start within the next few weeks.

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Discussion: @pareene