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The American Prospect
Cover of the February 1, 2006, edition
Executive EditorDavid Dayen
CategoriesU.S. politics andpublic policy
FrequencyBimonthly
Founded1990;34 years ago(1990)
CompanyThe American Prospect, Inc.
CountryUnited States
Based inWashington, D.C.,U.S.
LanguageAmerican English
Websiteprospect.org
ISSN1049-7285

The American Prospectis a daily online and bimonthly print American political and public policy magazine dedicated toAmerican modern liberalismandprogressivism.Based inWashington, D.C.,The American Prospectsays it "is devoted to promoting informed discussion on public policy from a progressive perspective."[1]Its motto is "Ideas, Politics, and Power".

History[edit]

The magazine, initially calledThe Liberal Prospect,was founded in 1990 byRobert Kuttner,Robert Reich,andPaul Starras a response to the perceived ascendancy ofconservatismin the 1980s. Kuttner and Starr currently serve as co-editors. As of June 2019,David Dayenserves as executive editor[2]and Ellen J. Meany serves as Publisher.[1]

Current editors include Managing Editor Ryan Cooper, co-founder and Co-editor Robert Kuttner, Editor-at-LargeHarold Meyerson,co-founder and Co-editor Paul Starr, and Deputy Editor Gabrielle Gurley.

Staff writersand contributors have includedGabriel Arana,Steve Erickson,Adele Stan,Paul Waldman,andEJ Dionne.[citation needed]Other notable contributors toThe Prospect'sprint and online magazine include authorDavid Garrowand Harvard Law professorRandall Kennedy.[citation needed]Eric Altermanserved as its main media criticism and history columnist until 2023, when he was replaced byRick Perlstein.[3]

The Prospecthas several programs to focus on the development of the next generation of progressive writers and journalists. Its internship program counts among its alumniBernie Sandersadvisor Matt Duss. FormerProspectintern Shera Avi-Yonah was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for 2021. Its writing fellowship program enables young writers to develop their skills under an intensive mentoring program that is widely regarded as one of the foremost springboards to fulfilling and impactful careers in journalism and the academy. Program alumni includeEzra Klein,[4]Matt Yglesias,[4]Jamelle Bouie,Adam Serwer,Chris Mooney,Joshua Micah Marshall,Dana Goldstein,Nicholas Confessore,and Kate Sheppard.

In March 2010,The American Prospectentered into an affiliation withDemos,a public policy research and advocacy center based in New York City. The official affiliation ended in 2012. That year, the magazine nearly folded due to financial struggles, but it was able to raise enough money to stay afloat.[5]In 2014, the magazine re-purposed itself as a "quarterly journal of ideas".Kit Rachlisannounced he was leaving the editorship of the magazine, senior writer Monica Potts and editor Bob Moser were laid off, while several other editorial staffers left the publication.[6]

In 2019,The Prospectcelebrated its 30th anniversary. At the anniversary gala, Kuttner said, "The Prospecthas been all about connecting dots—between the structural corruptions of capitalism, the deep analysis of how that operates politically, the narrative story of how regular people experience it, the related corruption of our democracy, and the movement politics of taking America back. "[7]

Current executive editor David Dayen has introduced a new motto toThe Prospect:"Ideas, Politics, and Power".[8]Dayen has reported extensively on the coronavirus pandemic with his daily newsletters Unsanitized and First 100, and pointedThe Prospect's coverage toward Washington insider knowledge, including series like Cabinet Watch, which broke news of several of Joe Biden's high-profile Cabinet appointments.

In 2020,The Prospectintroduced its flagship Day One Agenda[9]series outlining the ways in which then-President-Elect Joe Biden could use executive power to implement progressive policy. Reporting from the series has been cited inVox,Salon,andThe Washington Post.[citation needed]

As of 2020,The Prospectpartners with news organizations includingThe InterceptandDissent Magazine.

Accolades, awards, and recognition[edit]

In 2010,The American Prospectwas the recipient ofUtne Readermagazine's Utne Independent Press Award for Political Coverage.[10] In 2017, then-Prospectcolumnist Adele M. Stan won the prestigious Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.[11]Her reporting on the American far-right predicted the Trump presidency. The committee wrote of Stan's work: "Stan's prescient 2016 portfolio stands as a chilling testimony to fearless commentary, and signals the changes we need in public life and in journalism to preserve civil liberties and pursue social justice."

In 2021, Executive Editor David Dayen won the Hillman Prize in Magazine Journalism for his Unsanitized newsletter series.[12]

Also in 2021, Deputy Editor Gabrielle Gurley won the Gene Burd Award for Excellence in Urban Journalism for her article "Public Transportation in Crisis".[13]

Managing Editor Jonathan Guyer won the 2021 Dateline Award for Investigative Journalism (Magazine) recognizing excellence in the category of Investigative Journalism for his feature "The Lucrative Afterlife of a Trump Official".[14]

Format[edit]

Originally,The American Prospectpublished quarterly, then bimonthly. In 2000, thanks to a grant from theSchumann Center for Media and Democracy,it became biweekly.[15]Financial and logistical difficulties ensued, and the magazine moved to a ten-issue-per-year format in spring 2003 and a bimonthly format in summer 2012. The online version of the magazine included a blog called TAPPED (derived from TAP, the acronym ofThe American Prospect). Facing financial issues, the magazine reduced its bi-monthly publication schedule to a quarterly publication schedule in 2014.[6]Starting in 2020, the magazine returned to a bimonthly schedule.

The Prospectreleases periodic special issues, including the Green New Deal (November 2019), Caregiving in Crisis (October 2020), and the Supply Chain Debacle (February 2022).

References[edit]

  1. ^ab"About Us".The American Prospect.RetrievedJanuary 13,2022.
  2. ^Prospect Staff,David Dayen Breaks Down the GameStop Story on Useful Idiots,The American Prospect, February 1, 2021
  3. ^Perlstein, Rick (December 28, 2023)."Subject: 📣 A Message from Rick Perlstein (The American Prospect newsletter)".Archive of Political Emails.RetrievedApril 21,2024.
  4. ^abRosenberg, Alyssa (May 30, 2014)."The fate of the American Prospect and what keeps a journalism ecosystem healthy".Washington Post.RetrievedDecember 10,2015.
  5. ^Calderone, Michael (June 20, 2012)."American Prospect Exceeds Fundraising Goal, Raises Enough To Stay Alive".Huffington Post.RetrievedDecember 10,2015.
  6. ^abTanzer, Myles (June 2, 2014)."American Prospect Mass Exodus Begins".BuzzFeed.RetrievedDecember 10,2015.
  7. ^Meyerson, Harold (October 24, 2019)."Sisyphus Is Happy".The American Prospect.RetrievedFebruary 25,2021.
  8. ^"The American Prospect".The American Prospect.RetrievedFebruary 25,2021.
  9. ^"Day One Agenda".The American Prospect.RetrievedFebruary 25,2021.
  10. ^"Winners of the 2010 Utne Independent Press Awards".RetrievedOctober 27,2010.
  11. ^Teuscher, Amanda (April 25, 2017)."Adele M. Stan Wins Hillman Prize for Excellence in Journalism".The American Prospect.RetrievedFebruary 25,2021.
  12. ^"Unsanitized".Hillman Foundation.April 9, 2021.RetrievedMay 3,2021.
  13. ^"Awards".aejmc.org.RetrievedJune 7,2021.
  14. ^2021 Dateline Award for Investigative Journalism (Magazine)
  15. ^Goodison, Donna L. (June 14, 2002)."Just what are the prospects for The American Prospect?".Boston Business Journal.

External links[edit]

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