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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.[3] Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, the Voice began as a platform for the creative community of New York City. It ceased publication in 2017, although its online archives remained accessible. After an ownership change, the Voice reappeared in print as a quarterly in April 2021.[3]

The Village Voice
TypeAlternative weekly
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Brian Calle[1]
Founder(s)Ed Fancher
Dan Wolf
John Wilcock
Norman Mailer
FoundedOctober 26, 1955
Ceased publicationAugust 22, 2017 (2017-08-22)
RelaunchedApril 17, 2021 (2021-04-17)
Headquarters36 Cooper Square
New York City 10003
U.S.[2]
Circulation120,000 (2016)
ISSN0042-6180
Websitevillagevoice.com
The Cooper Square offices of the paper

Over its 63 years of publication, The Village Voice received three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Press Foundation Award, and the George Polk Award. The Village Voice hosted a variety of writers and artists, including writer Ezra Pound, cartoonist Lynda Barry, artist Greg Tate, and film critics Andrew Sarris, Jonas Mekas and J. Hoberman.

In October 2015, The Village Voice changed ownership and severed all ties with former parent company Voice Media Group (VMG).[4] The Voice announced on August 22, 2017, that it would cease publication of its print edition and convert to a fully digital venture, on a date to be announced.[5] The final printed edition, featuring a 1965 photo of Bob Dylan on the cover, was distributed on September 21, 2017.[6] After halting print publication in 2017, the Voice provided daily coverage through its website until August 31, 2018, when it announced it was ceasing production of new editorial content.[7] On December 23, 2020, editor R.C. Baker announced that the paper would resume publishing new articles both online and in a quarterly print edition.[8] In January 2021, new original stories began being published again on the website.[9] A spring print edition was released in April 2021.[10] The Voice's website continues to feature archival material related to current events.

History

Early history

 
Cover of the October 1955 issue

The Village Voice was launched by Ed Fancher, Dan Wolf, and Norman Mailer[11] on October 26, 1955, from a two-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village; that was its initial coverage area, which expanded to other parts of the city by the 1960s. In 1960, it moved from 22 Greenwich Avenue to 61 Christopher Street in a landmark triangular corner building adjoining Sheridan Square, and a few feet west of the Stonewall Inn;[12] then, from the 1970s through 1980, at 11th Street and University Place; and then Broadway and 13th Street. It moved to Cooper Square in the East Village in 1991, and in 2013, to the Financial District.[13]

Early columnists of the 1950s and 1960s included Jonas Mekas, who explored the underground film movement in his "Film Journal" column; Linda Solomon, who reviewed the Village club scene in the "Riffs" column; and Sam Julty, who wrote a popular column on car ownership and maintenance. John Wilcock wrote a column every week for the paper's first ten years. Another regular from that period was the cartoonist Kin Platt, who did weekly theatrical caricatures. Other prominent regulars have included Peter Schjeldahl, Ellen Willis, Jill Johnston, Tom Carson, and Richard Goldstein. Staff of the Voice joined a union, the Distributive Workers of America, in 1977.[14]

For more than 40 years, Wayne Barrett was the newspaper's muckraker, covering New York real estate developers and politicians, including Donald Trump. The material continued to be a valuable resource for reporters covering the Trump presidency.[7]

The Voice has published investigations of New York City politics, as well as reporting on national politics, with arts, culture, music, dance, film, and theater reviews. Writers and cartoonists for the Voice have received three Pulitzer Prizes: in 1981 (Teresa Carpenter, for feature writing),[15] 1986 (Jules Feiffer, for editorial cartooning)[16] and 2000 (Mark Schoofs, for international reporting).[17] The paper has, almost since its inception, recognized alternative theater in New York through its Obie Awards.[18] The paper's "Pazz & Jop" music poll, started by Robert Christgau in the early 1970s, is released annually and remains an influential survey of the nation's music critics. In 1999, film critic J. Hoberman and film section editor Dennis Lim began a similar Village Voice Film Poll for the year in film. In 2001, the Voice sponsored its first music festival, Siren Festival, a free annual event every summer held at Coney Island. The event moved to the lower tip of Manhattan in 2011, and was re-christened the "4knots Music Festival", a reference to the speed of the East River's current.[19]

During the 1980s and onward, the Voice was known for its staunch support for gay rights, and it published an annual Gay Pride issue every June. However, early in its history, the newspaper had a reputation as having a homophobic slant. While reporting on the Stonewall riots of 1969, the newspaper referred to the riots as "The Great Faggot Rebellion".[20] Two reporters, Howard Smith and Lucian Truscott IV, both used the words "faggot" and "dyke" in their articles about the riots. (These words were not commonly used by homosexuals to refer to each other at this time.) Smith and Truscott retrieved their press cards from the Voice offices, which were very close to the bar, as the trouble began; they were among the first journalists to record the event, Smith being trapped inside the bar with the police, and Truscott reporting from the street.[21] After the riot, the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) attempted to promote dances for gays and lesbians in the Voice, but were not allowed to use the words "gay" or "homosexual", which the newspaper considered derogatory. The newspaper changed its policy after the GLF petitioned it to do so.[22] Over time, the Voice changed its stance, and, in 1982, became the second organization in the US known to have extended domestic partner benefits. Jeff Weinstein, an employee of the paper and shop steward for the publishing local of District 65 UAW, negotiated and won agreement in the union contract to extend health, life insurance, and disability benefits to the "spouse equivalents" of its union members.[23]

The Voice's competitors in New York City include New York Observer and Time Out New York. Seventeen alternative weeklies around the United States are owned by the Voice's former parent company Village Voice Media. The film section writers and editors also produced a weekly Voice Film Club podcast.[24]

In 1996, after decades of carrying a cover price, the Voice switched from a paid weekly to a free, alternative weekly. The Voice website was a recipient of the National Press Foundation’s Online Journalism Award in 2001[25] and the Editor & Publisher EPpy Award for Best Overall U.S. Newspaper Online Service – Weekly, Community, Alternative & Free in 2003.[26]

In 2005, the Phoenix alternative weekly chain New Times Media purchased the company and took the Village Voice Media name. Previous owners of The Village Voice or of Village Voice Media have included co-founders Fancher[27] and Wolf,[11] New York City Councilman Carter Burden,[11] New York Magazine founder Clay Felker, Rupert Murdoch, and Leonard Stern of the Hartz Mountain empire.

Acquisition by New Times Media

After The Village Voice was acquired by New Times Media in 2005, the publication's key personnel changed. The Voice was then managed by two journalists from Phoenix, Arizona.

In April 2006, the Voice dismissed music editor Chuck Eddy.[28] Four months later, the newspaper sacked longtime music critic Robert Christgau. In January 2007, the newspaper fired sex columnist and erotica author Rachel Kramer Bussel; long-term creative director Ted Keller, art director Minh Oung, fashion columnist Lynn Yaeger and Deputy Art Director LD Beghtol were laid off or fired soon afterward. Editor in chief Donald Forst resigned in December 2005. Doug Simmons, his replacement, was sacked in March 2006 after it was discovered that a reporter had fabricated portions of an article. Simmons' successor, Erik Wemple, resigned after two weeks. His replacement, David Blum, was fired in March 2007. Tony Ortega then held the position of editor in chief from 2007 to 2012.

The sacking of Nat Hentoff, who worked for the paper from 1958 to 2008, led to further criticism of the management by some of its current writers, Hentoff himself, and by the Voice's ideological rival paper National Review, which referred to Hentoff as a "treasure".[29][30] At the end of 2011, Wayne Barrett, who had written for the paper since 1973, was laid off. Fellow muckraking investigative reporter Tom Robbins then resigned in solidarity.[31]

Voice Media Group

Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media's papers and associated web properties from its founders in September 2012, and formed the Denver-based Voice Media Group.[32]

In May 2013, The Village Voice editor Will Bourne and deputy editor Jessica Lustig told The New York Times that they were quitting the paper rather than executing further staff layoffs.[33] Both had been recent appointments. By then, the Voice had employed five editors since 2005. Following Bourne's and Lustig's departure, Village Media Group management fired three of the Voice's longest-serving contributors: gossip and nightlife columnist Michael Musto, restaurant critic Robert Sietsema, and theater critic Michael Feingold, all of whom had been writing for the paper for decades.[34][35][36] Feingold was rehired as a writer for The Village Voice in January 2016.[37] Michael Musto was also rehired in 2016 and wrote cover stories regarding subjects like Oscar scandals and Madonna's body of work. Musto returned again to write features in 2021 under new publisher Brian Calle.[citation needed]

In July 2013, Voice Media Group executives named Tom Finkel as editor.[38]

Peter Barbey ownership and construction

Peter Barbey, through the privately owned investment company Black Walnut Holdings LLC, purchased The Village Voice from Voice Media Group in October 2015.[39] Barbey is a member of one of America's wealthiest families.[40] The family has had ownership interest in the Reading Eagle, a daily newspaper serving the city of Reading, Pennsylvania and the surrounding region, for many years. Barbey serves as president and CEO of the Reading Eagle Company, and holds the same roles at The Village Voice. After taking over ownership of the Voice, Barbey named Joe Levy, formerly of Rolling Stone, as interim editor in chief,[41] and Suzan Gursoy, formerly of Ad Week, as publisher.[42] In December 2016, Barbey named Stephen Mooallem, formerly of Harper's Bazaar, as editor in chief.[43] Mooallem resigned in May 2018, and was not replaced before the publication's shutdown.[7]

Under the Barbey ownership, advertisements for escort agencies and phone sex services came to an end.[7]

On August 31, 2018, it was announced that the Village Voice would cease production and lay off half of its staff. The remaining staff would be kept on for a limited period for archival projects.[44][45][46] An August 31 piece by freelancer Steven Wishnia was hailed as the last article to be published on the website.[7] Two weeks after the Village Voice ceased operations on September 13, co-founder John Wilcock died in California at the age of 91.

Return to print

In January 2021, a new original story was published on the website of The Village Voice.[47] On April 17, 2021, the Spring 2021 issue of the Village Voice appeared in news boxes and on newsstands for the first time since 2018. At the time, The Village Voice was a quarterly publication.[48]

Contributors

The Voice has published columns and works by writers such as Ezra Pound, Henry Miller, Barbara Garson, Katherine Anne Porter, James Baldwin, E.E. Cummings, staff writer and author Ted Hoagland, Colson Whitehead, Tom Stoppard, Paul Lukas, Lorraine Hansberry, Lester Bangs, Allen Ginsberg and Joshua Clover. Former editors have included Clay Felker.

The newspaper has also been a host to underground cartoonists. In addition to mainstay Jules Feiffer, whose cartoon ran for decades in the paper until its cancellation in 1996, well-known cartoonists featured in the paper have included R. Crumb, Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Stan Mack, Mark Alan Stamaty, Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Ward Sutton, Ruben Bolling and M. Wartella.

Backpage sex trafficking

Backpage was a classified advertisement website owned by the same parent company as The Village Voice. In 2012, Nicholas Kristof wrote an article in The New York Times detailing a young woman's account of being sold on Backpage.[49] The Village Voice released an article entitled "What Nick Kristof Got Wrong" accusing Kristof of fabricating the story and ignoring journalistic standards.[50] Kristof responded, noting that the Voice did not dispute the column, but rather tried to show how the timeline in Kristof's original piece was inaccurate. In this rebuttal, he not only justified his original timeline, but expressed sadness "to see Village Voice Media become a major player in sex trafficking, and to see it use its journalists as attack dogs for those who threaten its corporate interests", noting another instance of The Village Voice attacking journalists reporting on Backpage's role in sex trafficking.[51]

After repeated calls for a boycott of The Village Voice, the company was sold to Voice Media Group.[52]

See also

References

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Further reading

External links

  • The Village Voice Official site.
  • The Village Voice (digital archive) at Google News
  • Who Speaks for the Negro Vanderbilt University documentary website

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This article is about the New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper known for being the country s first alternative newsweekly 3 Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf Ed Fancher John Wilcock and Norman Mailer the Voice began as a platform for the creative community of New York City It ceased publication in 2017 although its online archives remained accessible After an ownership change the Voice reappeared in print as a quarterly in April 2021 3 The Village VoiceTypeAlternative weeklyFormatTabloidOwner s Brian Calle 1 Founder s Ed FancherDan WolfJohn WilcockNorman MailerFoundedOctober 26 1955Ceased publicationAugust 22 2017 2017 08 22 RelaunchedApril 17 2021 2021 04 17 Headquarters36 Cooper SquareNew York City 10003 U S 2 Circulation120 000 2016 ISSN0042 6180Websitevillagevoice wbr comThe Cooper Square offices of the paper Over its 63 years of publication The Village Voice received three Pulitzer Prizes the National Press Foundation Award and the George Polk Award The Village Voice hosted a variety of writers and artists including writer Ezra Pound cartoonist Lynda Barry artist Greg Tate and film critics Andrew Sarris Jonas Mekas and J Hoberman In October 2015 The Village Voice changed ownership and severed all ties with former parent company Voice Media Group VMG 4 The Voice announced on August 22 2017 that it would cease publication of its print edition and convert to a fully digital venture on a date to be announced 5 The final printed edition featuring a 1965 photo of Bob Dylan on the cover was distributed on September 21 2017 6 After halting print publication in 2017 the Voice provided daily coverage through its website until August 31 2018 when it announced it was ceasing production of new editorial content 7 On December 23 2020 editor R C Baker announced that the paper would resume publishing new articles both online and in a quarterly print edition 8 In January 2021 new original stories began being published again on the website 9 A spring print edition was released in April 2021 10 The Voice s website continues to feature archival material related to current events Contents 1 History 1 1 Early history 1 2 Acquisition by New Times Media 1 3 Voice Media Group 1 4 Peter Barbey ownership and construction 1 5 Return to print 2 Contributors 3 Backpage sex trafficking 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksHistory EditEarly history Edit Cover of the October 1955 issue The Village Voice was launched by Ed Fancher Dan Wolf and Norman Mailer 11 on October 26 1955 from a two bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village that was its initial coverage area which expanded to other parts of the city by the 1960s In 1960 it moved from 22 Greenwich Avenue to 61 Christopher Street in a landmark triangular corner building adjoining Sheridan Square and a few feet west of the Stonewall Inn 12 then from the 1970s through 1980 at 11th Street and University Place and then Broadway and 13th Street It moved to Cooper Square in the East Village in 1991 and in 2013 to the Financial District 13 Early columnists of the 1950s and 1960s included Jonas Mekas who explored the underground film movement in his Film Journal column Linda Solomon who reviewed the Village club scene in the Riffs column and Sam Julty who wrote a popular column on car ownership and maintenance John Wilcock wrote a column every week for the paper s first ten years Another regular from that period was the cartoonist Kin Platt who did weekly theatrical caricatures Other prominent regulars have included Peter Schjeldahl Ellen Willis Jill Johnston Tom Carson and Richard Goldstein Staff of the Voice joined a union the Distributive Workers of America in 1977 14 For more than 40 years Wayne Barrett was the newspaper s muckraker covering New York real estate developers and politicians including Donald Trump The material continued to be a valuable resource for reporters covering the Trump presidency 7 The Voice has published investigations of New York City politics as well as reporting on national politics with arts culture music dance film and theater reviews Writers and cartoonists for the Voice have received three Pulitzer Prizes in 1981 Teresa Carpenter for feature writing 15 1986 Jules Feiffer for editorial cartooning 16 and 2000 Mark Schoofs for international reporting 17 The paper has almost since its inception recognized alternative theater in New York through its Obie Awards 18 The paper s Pazz amp Jop music poll started by Robert Christgau in the early 1970s is released annually and remains an influential survey of the nation s music critics In 1999 film critic J Hoberman and film section editor Dennis Lim began a similar Village Voice Film Poll for the year in film In 2001 the Voice sponsored its first music festival Siren Festival a free annual event every summer held at Coney Island The event moved to the lower tip of Manhattan in 2011 and was re christened the 4knots Music Festival a reference to the speed of the East River s current 19 During the 1980s and onward the Voice was known for its staunch support for gay rights and it published an annual Gay Pride issue every June However early in its history the newspaper had a reputation as having a homophobic slant While reporting on the Stonewall riots of 1969 the newspaper referred to the riots as The Great Faggot Rebellion 20 Two reporters Howard Smith and Lucian Truscott IV both used the words faggot and dyke in their articles about the riots These words were not commonly used by homosexuals to refer to each other at this time Smith and Truscott retrieved their press cards from the Voice offices which were very close to the bar as the trouble began they were among the first journalists to record the event Smith being trapped inside the bar with the police and Truscott reporting from the street 21 After the riot the Gay Liberation Front GLF attempted to promote dances for gays and lesbians in the Voice but were not allowed to use the words gay or homosexual which the newspaper considered derogatory The newspaper changed its policy after the GLF petitioned it to do so 22 Over time the Voice changed its stance and in 1982 became the second organization in the US known to have extended domestic partner benefits Jeff Weinstein an employee of the paper and shop steward for the publishing local of District 65 UAW negotiated and won agreement in the union contract to extend health life insurance and disability benefits to the spouse equivalents of its union members 23 The Voice s competitors in New York City include New York Observer and Time Out New York Seventeen alternative weeklies around the United States are owned by the Voice s former parent company Village Voice Media The film section writers and editors also produced a weekly Voice Film Club podcast 24 In 1996 after decades of carrying a cover price the Voice switched from a paid weekly to a free alternative weekly The Voice website was a recipient of the National Press Foundation s Online Journalism Award in 2001 25 and the Editor amp Publisher EPpy Award for Best Overall U S Newspaper Online Service Weekly Community Alternative amp Free in 2003 26 In 2005 the Phoenix alternative weekly chain New Times Media purchased the company and took the Village Voice Media name Previous owners of The Village Voice or of Village Voice Media have included co founders Fancher 27 and Wolf 11 New York City Councilman Carter Burden 11 New York Magazine founder Clay Felker Rupert Murdoch and Leonard Stern of the Hartz Mountain empire Acquisition by New Times Media Edit After The Village Voice was acquired by New Times Media in 2005 the publication s key personnel changed The Voice was then managed by two journalists from Phoenix Arizona In April 2006 the Voice dismissed music editor Chuck Eddy 28 Four months later the newspaper sacked longtime music critic Robert Christgau In January 2007 the newspaper fired sex columnist and erotica author Rachel Kramer Bussel long term creative director Ted Keller art director Minh Oung fashion columnist Lynn Yaeger and Deputy Art Director LD Beghtol were laid off or fired soon afterward Editor in chief Donald Forst resigned in December 2005 Doug Simmons his replacement was sacked in March 2006 after it was discovered that a reporter had fabricated portions of an article Simmons successor Erik Wemple resigned after two weeks His replacement David Blum was fired in March 2007 Tony Ortega then held the position of editor in chief from 2007 to 2012 The sacking of Nat Hentoff who worked for the paper from 1958 to 2008 led to further criticism of the management by some of its current writers Hentoff himself and by the Voice s ideological rival paper National Review which referred to Hentoff as a treasure 29 30 At the end of 2011 Wayne Barrett who had written for the paper since 1973 was laid off Fellow muckraking investigative reporter Tom Robbins then resigned in solidarity 31 Voice Media Group Edit Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media s papers and associated web properties from its founders in September 2012 and formed the Denver based Voice Media Group 32 In May 2013 The Village Voice editor Will Bourne and deputy editor Jessica Lustig told The New York Times that they were quitting the paper rather than executing further staff layoffs 33 Both had been recent appointments By then the Voice had employed five editors since 2005 Following Bourne s and Lustig s departure Village Media Group management fired three of the Voice s longest serving contributors gossip and nightlife columnist Michael Musto restaurant critic Robert Sietsema and theater critic Michael Feingold all of whom had been writing for the paper for decades 34 35 36 Feingold was rehired as a writer for The Village Voice in January 2016 37 Michael Musto was also rehired in 2016 and wrote cover stories regarding subjects like Oscar scandals and Madonna s body of work Musto returned again to write features in 2021 under new publisher Brian Calle citation needed In July 2013 Voice Media Group executives named Tom Finkel as editor 38 Peter Barbey ownership and construction Edit Peter Barbey through the privately owned investment company Black Walnut Holdings LLC purchased The Village Voice from Voice Media Group in October 2015 39 Barbey is a member of one of America s wealthiest families 40 The family has had ownership interest in the Reading Eagle a daily newspaper serving the city of Reading Pennsylvania and the surrounding region for many years Barbey serves as president and CEO of the Reading Eagle Company and holds the same roles at The Village Voice After taking over ownership of the Voice Barbey named Joe Levy formerly of Rolling Stone as interim editor in chief 41 and Suzan Gursoy formerly of Ad Week as publisher 42 In December 2016 Barbey named Stephen Mooallem formerly of Harper s Bazaar as editor in chief 43 Mooallem resigned in May 2018 and was not replaced before the publication s shutdown 7 Under the Barbey ownership advertisements for escort agencies and phone sex services came to an end 7 On August 31 2018 it was announced that the Village Voice would cease production and lay off half of its staff The remaining staff would be kept on for a limited period for archival projects 44 45 46 An August 31 piece by freelancer Steven Wishnia was hailed as the last article to be published on the website 7 Two weeks after the Village Voice ceased operations on September 13 co founder John Wilcock died in California at the age of 91 Return to print Edit In January 2021 a new original story was published on the website of The Village Voice 47 On April 17 2021 the Spring 2021 issue of the Village Voice appeared in news boxes and on newsstands for the first time since 2018 At the time The Village Voice was a quarterly publication 48 Contributors EditThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed August 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Voice has published columns and works by writers such as Ezra Pound Henry Miller Barbara Garson Katherine Anne Porter James Baldwin E E Cummings staff writer and author Ted Hoagland Colson Whitehead Tom Stoppard Paul Lukas Lorraine Hansberry Lester Bangs Allen Ginsberg and Joshua Clover Former editors have included Clay Felker The newspaper has also been a host to underground cartoonists In addition to mainstay Jules Feiffer whose cartoon ran for decades in the paper until its cancellation in 1996 well known cartoonists featured in the paper have included R Crumb Matt Groening Lynda Barry Stan Mack Mark Alan Stamaty Ted Rall Tom Tomorrow Ward Sutton Ruben Bolling and M Wartella Backpage sex trafficking EditMain article Backpage Backpage was a classified advertisement website owned by the same parent company as The Village Voice In 2012 Nicholas Kristof wrote an article in The New York Times detailing a young woman s account of being sold on Backpage 49 The Village Voice released an article entitled What Nick Kristof Got Wrong accusing Kristof of fabricating the story and ignoring journalistic standards 50 Kristof responded noting that the Voice did not dispute the column but rather tried to show how the timeline in Kristof s original piece was inaccurate In this rebuttal he not only justified his original timeline but expressed sadness to see Village Voice Media become a major player in sex trafficking and to see it use its journalists as attack dogs for those who threaten its corporate interests noting another instance of The Village Voice attacking journalists reporting on Backpage s role in sex trafficking 51 After repeated calls for a boycott of The Village Voice the company was sold to Voice Media Group 52 See also 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