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A Comprehensive Guide to Merger Coverage
To nobody's surprise, this week's announcement of the New Times-Village Voice Media merger has generated a boatload of coverage from every corner of the Internet. You could keep track of it all with a Google News search, but Google News isn't very good yet at separating wheat from chaff. At aan.org we're reading it all, from prosaic news reports to the looniest blog ravings, so we can point you to some of the more interesting coverage while sparing you endless repeats of the AP feed. We will continue to update this page throughout the week.
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AAN Staff |
10-27-2005 1:47 pm |
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New Times is Bad Times...for the L.A. Weeklynew
National Review Online |
10-27-2005 12:44 pm |
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A New Paper Chainnew
Nashville Scene |
10-27-2005 12:38 pm |
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New Times Strikes Backnew
LA Citybeat |
10-27-2005 12:21 pm |
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Why Regulators Should Block the Village Voice-New Times Dealnew
The San Francisco Bay Guardian |
10-26-2005 12:58 pm |
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Cooper: Apocalyptic Merger Commentary Overlooks Some Realitiesnew
MarcCooper.com |
10-26-2005 12:32 pm |
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A New Owner for Seattle Weeklynew
The Seattle Times |
10-25-2005 3:40 pm |
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Parent Firm of Seattle Weekly To Be Acquirednew
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
10-25-2005 1:21 pm |
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Don't Get So Worked up Over Alt-Weekly Dealnew
Romenesko Letters |
10-25-2005 12:56 pm |
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‘Scene’ Parent, New Times Mergenew
Nashville City Paper |
10-25-2005 12:50 pm |
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New Times to Purchase LA Weeklynew
Los Angeles Times |
10-25-2005 12:26 pm |
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New Times-Village Voice Merger Adds to Debate on Corporate Controlnew
Arizona Republic |
10-25-2005 12:49 pm |
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Alternative Media Companies to Mergenew
All Things Considered, October 24, 2005. Village Voice Media and New Times Media announce a merger worth an estimated $400 million. New Times Media already owns 11 alternative newspapers, while the Village Voice owns six. Some critics fear the merger will lead to a weakening of the alternative press in the United States.
National Public Radio |
10-24-2005 12:52 pm |
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New Times is Good, But Template Could Be a Problem, Writer Argues
Weighing in today on the NT-VVM merger on the Huffington Post, John Dicker says the usual arguments against media consolidation are not apt in this case, since New Times papers "do incredible reporting. Lots of it. All the time. Serious investigative shit that’s hard, if not impossible, to emulate in the blogosphere." In fact, Dicker argues that readers in many other large metro areas "would be well served if their alt weekly were gobbled up by the emerging behemoth." He's worried, though, that New Times will impose its editorial template and shrink the newsholes of the newly acquired papers, and that the company "doesn't host blogs or create interplay between its web and print versions."
10-24-2005 12:53 pm |
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Dan Savage on the VVM-New Times Deal
"With its purchase by New Times, the VVM chain will be owned by a smaller, more anti-establishment corporation than it has been in years," blogs The Stranger's editor, mocking the New York Times' suggestion that the deal raises "questions about whether The Voice and its siblings can preserve their anti-establishment roots as part of a growing corporation." The Voice's last three owners -- Savage notes -- have been a collection of investment bankers, pet food magnate and billionaire investor Leonard Stern, and "left-wing rabble-rouser Rupert Murdoch."
10-24-2005 9:32 pm |
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