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NYP Earns Reputation As Ultimate Media Hatchet

By AAN Staff

april 30, 2004 10:03 am

NYP Earns Reputation As Ultimate Media Hatchet

In an interview with A.J. Daulerio of The Black Table, New York Press editor-in-chief Jeff Koyen doesn't disappoint those who expect from him "a certain level of infamy," as Daulerio puts it. Koyen claims the alt-weekly model "is dead or dying," and the aging, liberal editors of those "stale, homogenous products" have lost touch with the young. He admits the Press, too, was aging badly, but he's trying to convert it back into "a venue for emerging talent." The result is more and younger readers, he says.

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Tags: New York Press