![]() After another set of brutal layoffs in 2013 that included gay nightlife guru Michael Musto, arguably the paper's last big name-in-lights, Baron, now at GQ, wrote: Hoberman was cut in another round of layoffs, he said: "It’s safe to say that I’ll never love an institution as much as I first loved the Voice - because there is unlikely to ever be an institution like that Voice again, unfortunately." With that, Rosie Gray, a former news blogger now at BuzzFeed, declared: "The Voice, dying for so long, seems finally on the verge of actual collapse."īut there would be more carnage yet. At Robbins' office send-off party, he famously told remaining staff: “Newspapers will break your heart." “It was a great institution for what it was," he said. When legendary city reporter Wayne Barrett was laid off in 2011 - and the great Tom Robbins quit in solidarity - the paper "lost Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle,” lamented Don Forst, editor of the Voice from 1996 to 2005. John Nichols AugSomewhere this is happening. "But you need money to do journalism." The Village Voice was exposing Donald Trump when no one else was paying attention. "It's amazing how many great journalists still got their start at the Voice, even as it lost its ad revenue," Schoofs said. "Ad revenue was decimated - they literally could not afford to keep that many people on staff," Mark Schoofs, who snagged the Voice a Pulitzer during his near-decade as a staff writer in the '90s, said by phone Tuesday. It's an NYC media tradition nearly as rich as the personal essay on leaving New York: Announce the Voice has betrayed you memorialize her finer days and declare her, as did the deserter before you, dead in grit and relevance.īut the city's flagship alt-weekly, like many local papers, never quite recovered from the Great Recession and the transformation of the info economy. ![]() But as every writer - and reader - who's ever loved and left the Village Voice will tell you, the paper died countless mini-deaths before Barbey's final blow. Lauren Evans AugI'm not quite ready to pivot to video #VillageVoice Grabbing an issue was always the first thing I did when I visited New York, and writing for it was always my dream. All i ever wanted from age 16 was to be part of it ![]() Christopher Robbins Augi'm a Kansas kid who found the then syndicated Village Voice at a Borders in 1989. How hard is it to run a trenchant, funny, thoughtful alt-weekly, in a city teeming with underemployed talent, with infinite resources? However, her "iconic progressive brand" will live on as a website and event company, he said. Last week, for the first time since 2018, I had a story of mine appear in the Village Voice.The Voice as we knew her best - printed weekly and stacked in newsstands across NYC - died at the hands of Philadelphia millionaire Peter Barbey, who vowed when he purchased her from a previous owner that she'd "survive and prosper." Now, less than two years after the sale, she's no longer "viable" in physical form, Barbey said Tuesday. I wrote about the 2021 NYC mayoral race, which will hold its Democratic primary on June 22nd, and I’ll be contributing to the Voice regularly, writing specifically on this very important municipal contest. Many people probably missed the news in December that the Voice, which its owner shut down in 2018, was sold to another owner who intends to bring it all the way back. I’ve been told a quartlerly print issue is coming, with the first one due sometime at the end of March. Print is good! I am always wary about news like this because this industry is so precarious and too dependent on the whims of rich individuals. Growing up in NYC, the Voice for me was my platonic ideal of a newspaper. It did the investigative journalism that mattered. Its coverage of arts and culture-books, galleries, plays, cinema-was unrivaled. It was a proudly left newspaper that, at the same time, was unafraid of heterodox voices, that could feature Nat Hentoff and Stanley Crouch and Colson Whitehead and Vivian Gornick and so many other fascinating writers.Īfter I quit the New York Observer in 2016, I went to write for the Voice, among other publications. ![]() It was, without question, the most fun I’ve had as a journalist and writer. I contributed investigative political pieces, commentary, and book reviews, thrilled to see my byline in a publication of such renown. I hope Village Voice 2.0 can bring back what it is New York has missed so much. The website is again posting original stories. It’s a bit of good news at a time that is still, for many, so dark. None of this, by the way, will change my approach to this Substack, Political Currents.
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