Posted on 08/22/2017 12:53:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
After more than 60 years, the Village Voice is shutting down its weekly print edition. Founded in 1955 and converted into a free weekly in 1996, the Voice built its name as one of the country’s first alt-weeklies by covering and critiquing New York politics, culture, and more with its distinctive downtown sensibility. The progressive alt-weekly plans to continue on in digital form, according to an announcement from Peter Barbey, who purchased it in October 2015 amid financial struggles, and will also continue to sponsor events like the Obie Awards and Pride Awards. “[The Voice] has been a beacon for progress and a literal voice for thousands of people whose identities, opinions, and ideas might otherwise have been unheard. I expect it to continue to be that and much, much more,” Barbey said. “The business has moved online — and so has the Voice’s audience, which expects to do what we do not just once a week, but every day.”
The Voice sold to Barbey, whose family owns the VF Corporation sportswear empire, in 2015 after a rocky decade under former owner Michael Lacey. In the recent years, the publication struggled through a series of layoffs and resignations, including one dramatic bloodbath in 2013 when then-editor-in-chief and Will Bourne and deputy Jessica Lustig both quit in protest.
The no-longer weekly alt-weekly has a hallowed history of defining and exemplifying New York counter-culture, having been founded by Norman Mailer, Ed Francher, John Wolf, and John Wilcock. It launched the careers of numerous authors and journalists, and started a trend of alt-weeklies across the country, many of which, like the Voice, had run into financial hardship with the advent of online media. Now, the Voice will try to build its presence online, as New Yorkers wonder what will happen to all those boxes dispensing Village Voice issues dotted around New York.
What happened? Did their subscriber die?
LOL!
That's some funny stuff right there, I tell ya.
Just like the LA Slimes, the left is finally seeing that their print propaganda vessels just ain’t makin’ it anymore and now trying to go digital in a last ditch effort to survive.
Your link is totally bad, Goes somewhere else entirely:
https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/is-that-future-is-female-tee-really-feminist.html
No more free print edition???
I guess we could make some jokes about how they can’t even give away that rag for free...........
Leftist a$$wipe rag.
After more than 60 years, the Village Voice is shutting down
Global Warmists Rejoice. I predict the saving in trees, those handy See-O-Two absorbers, will result in a reduction in the global temperature in 2117, one hundred years from now, by .000008793 degrees centigrade.
Bless you Village Voice. You could help even more by shutting down your online presence.
Think about it.
My own city’s weekly free leftist rag (most large cities have them) has had to tone down many of their “back page” ads for outright borderline pornography (mostly queer) in order to quit scaring away patrons. They pretend to be “intelligent,” but are poorly disguised leftist group think. What advertiser would want to be listed in these rumor mills?
The few times I was in New York in the ‘80s, I’d pick up a Village Voice to see who was playing where. Never read any of the so-called articles.
As far as I am concerned the paper died in 2009 when they fired Nat Hentoff. I am okay with leftists rags if they
investigate local political corruption, doing the work that the local MSM won’t do.
I thought they ended it 20 years ago.
So now they’re just another blog?
So gay escort ads aren’t paying the bills anymore? What is the world coming to?
Leftist, but something of a New York institution.
“...covering and critiquing New York politics, culture, and more with its distinctive downtown sensibility.”
Well, no WONDER they’re in a bind, they can’t even spell “reprehensibility.”
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