In your essential Tuesday media column: ESPN anchors in shameless sellout agreement, NPR is not going to die, Lawrence O'Donnell howls at the moon, Here Media loses in court, Mothering magazine folds its print edition, and we help The Daily.

College-ranking expert U.S. News and World Report will cease publishing an actual print magazine with December's issue.

We heard earlier today that Paste Magazine was in imminent danger of folding. Looks like it's already happened.

Heeb, the magazine for cool-type Jews, is shuttering its print edition, although its website will continue on. Looks like our deathwatch from last November was accurate, after all! The Great Magazine Die-Off is harder to kill than Steven Seagal.

Magazines are finally being allowed to bask in some momentary good news! Ad pages are up. Magazine failures are down. Is the Great Magazine Die-Off really over? Yes—this edition of it.

The Great Magazine Die-Off of 2008-09: has it ground to a halt, leaving the industry poised to spring forward into a new decade? Maybe. How lucky do you feel, magazine people?

In your terrible Thursday media column: Another print magazine dies, rumors of layoffs at ALM, the Dallas Morning News goes straight to journalism hell, and Town & Country is now officially sexy.

Last April, Giant magazine was targeted by (someone posing as?) rival XXL, which sent out letters to Giant advertisers warning them the mag would be going out of business. Denials all around! In May: another rumor denied. Today: Giant folds.

We've just confirmed that Time Inc. is folding Instyle Weddings, a quarterly publication. The wedding magazine category is rough these days.

Hachette is folding Metropolitan Home magazine. Its December issue will be its last.

Here, the victims of the Great Magazine Die-Off of 2008-2009. We did this once in March, and then again in April. Good lord. It keeps getting bigger. [Pic by Anna Edwards. Click to enlarge.]

Newsweek makes an educated guesstimate that Condé Nast's 2009 revenue will shrink by $1 billion.

Conde Nast CEO Chuck Townsend says that Conde's Very Bad, No Good, Four-Magazine-Folding Day today marks the end of magazine closures for the company. Although not the end of the hard times.

The results of the Conde Nast Magazine Death Pool are in, stunningly early: the company announced this morning that it's folding Gourmet, Cookie, and two bridal magazines, Elegant Bride and Modern Bride.

Urb magazine, the hip hop-ish lifestyle mag, is reportedly folding its print edition until further notice and going all-digital. Hip hop magazines remain an endangered species. [via Sage Francis, Byron Crawford]

No extra fashion ads to go around any more. Conde Nast folded its annual "Fashion Rocks" supplement months ago; now, Time Inc, is folding its quarterly fashion mag Style & Design, just before Fashion Week. Four layoffs. Tough times. [NYP]

Time Inc's Southern Accents is the latest victim of the Great Magazine Die-Off. The full memo:

Complex puts together a very impressive compendium of of 48 separate dead hip hop magazines. Vibe and Mass Appeal were just the latest. I didn't even notice Elemental was gone! R.I.P., One Nut! [Complex]

So Conde Nast has hired McKinsey, the smartest people in the world, to "develop new perspectives" for them. What does it usually mean when McKinsey's asked to do that? Layoffs!

Vibe Magazine—one of the biggest music magazines in America—is folding. The entire music magazine landscape is full of the dead and dying. [UPDATED below.]