AAN News
Village Voice Media President, David Schneiderman, Steps Downnew
Editor & Publisher |
10-26-2006 12:19 pm |
Industry News
Former Columnist Details Estrangement From Post-Merger VVM Papernew
Geov Parrish, a Seattle Weekly columnist who resigned in August, is airing his grievances with the alternative weekly. In a column in Eat the State!, a twice-monthly Washington state political and opinion journal, Parrish
laments the acquisition of his paper's parent company, Village Voice Media, late last year by New Times. "The new Seattle Weekly is being run by an enormous corporation that will run it the same way they'd run a widget factory," he writes. While much of Parrish's criticism of the reconstituted, 17-paper VVM is familiar, he offers an up-close-and-personal account of the impact of the merger on a single paper.
Eat the State! |
10-23-2006 10:11 am |
Industry News
Bay Guardian Suit Against VVM Set For July 2007 Trialnew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
10-11-2006 9:00 am |
Industry News
Legendary Editor Clay Felker Enters Nursing Homenew
After battling cancer and pneumonia, pioneering editor Clay Felker, 78, has entered a nursing home. The founder of New York magazine exerted a seminal influence in new journalism and the alternative press. Felker owned and edited The Village Voice from 1974 to 1977, and founded
California-based alternative magazine New West. But not everyone saw his influence as benevolent. A capsule history in The Village Voice's 50th anniversary issue claimed that Felker "dulled the Voice's radical edge by crimping the style of some of its more free-spirited writers, giving undue prominence to fluffy lifestyle pieces, and taking articles off the front page." One-time protégé James Brady pays tribute in Forbes magazine.
Forbes |
10-05-2006 8:25 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Media Dominates AFJ Food-Writing Awards
Three Village Voice Media writers won first-place awards in the Association of Food Journalists' annual Awards Competition, it was announced at the group's conference
on Saturday (press release here in PDF format). Jonathan Kauffman of East Bay Express won the Restaurant Criticism category in the division for papers with circulation under 150,000; Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly won the same category in the circulation 150,000-300,000 division. In addition, Ron Russell of SF Weekly won first place in Food News Reporting, circulation 150,000-300,000. They will each receive a $300 cash prize.
09-21-2006 9:35 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Undergoes a Staff Restructuring
Village Voice Media Press Release |
09-01-2006 9:23 am |
Press Releases
Wemple Says He'll Revamp Front of Booknew
The Village Voice |
05-31-2006 10:18 pm |
Industry News
Erik Wemple Hired to Lead the Village Voice
05-31-2006 4:13 pm |
Press Releases
CityBeat: Why Hasn't Lacey Touched L.A. Weekly Yet?new
Los Angeles CityBeat |
04-27-2006 1:54 pm |
Industry News
Norman: New Times/VVM Papers Do Include Media Criticismnew
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
04-21-2006 2:25 pm |
Industry News
Oodle Announces Partnership With BackPage.comnew
TMCnet (press release) |
03-07-2006 1:02 pm |
Industry News
California Closes Investigation of New Times-VVM Merger
Contrary to a Feb. 8 report in the San Francisco Bay Guardian that was linked from our Web site yesterday, AAN has learned that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced on Feb. 6 (PDF) that his office has closed its investigation of the merger without taking any enforcement action. In addition, the Bay Guardian article was in error in stating that "the two chains were caught in 2002 in an illegal market-allocation agreement." In fact, New Times and Village Voice Media signed a consent degree without admitting guilt in that case. Lockyer's letter stated that his office "will continue to monitor" the merged company's compliance with the settlement.
To read the Bay Guardian's Letter to the Editor in response to the item above, click here.
To read the Bay Guardian's Letter to the Editor in response to the item above, click here.
02-09-2006 11:04 pm |
Industry News
It's Official: New Times, Village Voice Merger Is a Done Deal
In a Jan. 31 press release, Scott Spear, senior vice president of Village Voice Media, announced that the merger has closed. The merger plans of New Times Media, LLC, and Village Voice Media were first announced on Oct. 23, 2005; in late November, the Department of Justice declared that it would not block the merger.
01-31-2006 3:36 pm |
Industry News
New Times, Village Voice Merger Closes
01-31-2006 3:14 pm |
Press Releases
Jim Larkin Names New Publisher at Village Voice
The new CEO of Village Voice Media announced Tuesday that Michael Cohen has been named publisher of the chain's flagship paper. In an e-mail message to Village Voice staffers, Larkin said that Cohen resigned his current position as publisher of Miami New Times and will take the helm at the Voice on Monday Jan. 30. Cohen, who has been in the alternative-weekly publishing business
for 22 years, began his career in ad sales at the Baltimore City Paper in 1983 and moved to New York five years later to help launch the New York Press as its ad director. He returned to New York in 2000 to serve briefly as publisher of the Press; he also served stints as publisher of AAN member papers Fairfield County Weekly and Philadelphia Weekly. In a separate e-mail to the Voice staff, Judy Miszner announced that Tuesday was her last day as the paper's publisher. "I thank all of you for making these the 7 best years of my career," she wrote.
01-24-2006 10:39 pm |
Industry News
