The Village Voice
Summary
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper in New York City, United States featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. It is also distributed throughout the United States on a pay basis.It was the first and is arguably the best known of the arts-oriented tabloids that have come to be known as alternative weeklies, though its reputation has been unstable since a recent buyout by publishing conglomerate New Times Media. The turbulent times its writers have covered have often been matched by the intrigue in its own offices, most recently including the firing of several high-profile contributors and a scandal over a fabricated story in 2005, the year the paper turned 50.
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A beautiful mind
There were times when the lobby of The Village Voice seemed to be a magnet for crazy people. When I worked there as a reporter in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was a weekly, if not daily, occurrence: A mentally ill person walks in with a fistful of tattered, mimeographed papers, claiming to have the inside.
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Harvey Shapiro, Poet of New York and Beyond, Dies at 88
In his work Mr. Shapiro examined his life as a man, a husband, a father and a Jew.
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Maura Johnston's new song
After Maura Johnston was let go from the Village Voice in September, she decided that, after six years as a full-time writer, it was time to “prove myself on a grand scale. ” On Thursday, she’ll do just that with the debut of her eponymous Maura Magazine, a weekly subscription publication for iOS devices.
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Village Voice sues Yelp for using “Best of”
Do you want to publish your ideas for “the best of San Francisco” or the “best of Seattle?” Well, the publisher of the Village Voice says you can’t because “best of” is a trademark that belongs exclusively to its group of alternative weeklies.
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Agency Puts City Stories on Stage
Using material gathered on a Web site, the advertising agency worked with The Village Voice to create "8 Million Protagonists. ".
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Media Decoder Blog: Leo Burnett to Present a Play Based on New Yorkers' Stories
Using material gathered on a Web site, the advertising agency worked with The Village Voice to create "8 Million Protagonists. ".
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How can alt-weeklies survive if they’re no longer an alternative?
Salon | The Phoenix Will Doig writes that “the way we create our own communities now” has helped hasten alt-weeklies to their grave:.
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The Village Voice's synthetic solution to a synthetic sex ad scandal | Michael Wolff
A once 'alternative' newspaper, accusations over sex-trafficking, a corporate ruse … it's mildly entertaining but all deeply phony.
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Village Voice Media Sheds Prostitution Hub Backpage.com
Village Voice Media, which publishes 13 alternative weekly newspapers including the Village Voice and LA Weekly (as well as their corresponding websites), is finally cutting ties with classifieds section Backpage. com—a constant thorn in the company's side as well as a major source of its revenue. But it remains to be seen whether the group can replace that revenue along with ads that the bad publicity cost the company.
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Village Voice newspapers split from Backpage
The Associated Press | The Arizona Republic | The Wall Street Journal | Forbes | Miami New Times | The Dallas Morning News Village Voice Media sold its newspapers to a company formed by some of its managers, the… Read more.
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