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Writer Fondly Recalls the '80s at the Village Voice
R.J. Smith, senior editor at Los Angeles magazine, tells stories of bickering and battling at the Village Voice in an interview with rockcritics.com. Smith, who was a music critic for the Voice until he left in 1990, calls Robert Christgau "the most helpful and complicated editor I've ever had," someone who was so obsessive that when he received a baggie full of semen from a member of the Swans protesting a bad review, he just told his assistant "to file it under S for Swans. Order had to be maintained." Other edit staffers were not so serene, Smith says, so "every week there was some new line being drawn, one week it was the old city hall lefties versus the fresh radical feminists, the next week it was the folks who thought the performance artist who stuffed yams up her ass was the bomb scuffling with those who had their knickers bunched."
04-12-2006 7:16 am |
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Village Voice Offers Mea Culpa For Posting Inappropriate Link
The NY-gossip blog Gawker tweaked the Village Voice this morning for posting a home-page link on villagevoice.com to a six-year old story on "Online Celeb Torture" written by Peter Braunstein, who was charged last year with brutalizing a woman in her Manhattan apartment. The Voice quickly removed the link and posted an editor's note, admitting that the employee responsible for the link "should have known better" and that Gawker's ridicule was well-placed.
04-07-2006 10:25 am |
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Reporter Jennifer Gonnerman Resigns From Village Voicenew
New York Observer |
04-07-2006 5:51 am |
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Voice Staff Protests Firing of Senior Writer Ridgewaynew
Gawker |
04-06-2006 8:29 am |
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Phoenix Critic: Voice's Schanberg Got Last Laughnew
The Boston Phoenix |
03-29-2006 6:20 am |
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Sydney Schanberg Wins Media Criticism Award for Voice Columnnew
The Village Voice |
03-27-2006 9:22 am |
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NY Press' Weinstein on Sylvester: Voice Editors Deserve Little Censurenew
New York Press |
03-16-2006 7:52 am |
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The Stranger Unearths Another 'Lacey Napkin'
Earlier this week, the Village Voice confirmed the departure of Doug Simmons by posting a photo of a napkin on which Executive Editor Mike Lacey had scrawled, "Doug Simmons is no longer acting editor." But the story doesn't end there. The Stranger has posted on its blog a new photo of a pair of napkins, on which "Lacey" writes that he "recently discovered that many of the young ladies who advertise in the back pages of the Voice actually have PENISES. They appear to be ladies until it’s too late."
03-15-2006 11:15 am |
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Village Voice Ousts Interim Editor Simmonsnew
One week after a partially fabricated story by Voice writer Nick Sylvester started a media furor, acting Editor-in-Chief Doug Simmons has been replaced by Senior Editor Ward Harkavy, the New York Post reports. A photograph of a note that Executive Editor Mike Lacey scrawled on a napkin is posted on the Village Voice Web site: "Doug Simmons is no longer acting editor. Ward Harkavy, long time senior editor, and Arizona Crony, is now interim editor. Call us tomorrow for next update." (Harkavy is a former New Times Inc. employee.) Lacey met with the New York Times' David Carr yesterday, but Carr told the Post, "we had a nice conversation about the editorial opportunity at the Village Voice, but it didn't involve me editing the paper." This morning, Lacey confirmed Simmons' departure but declined to say if the Sylvester incident was a factor. Harkavy told AP that he expected Sylvester would return to the Voice after his suspension.
New York Post (reg. req.) |
03-14-2006 6:05 am |
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Village Voice Readers Respond to Sylvester Incidentnew
The Village Voice |
03-07-2006 12:24 pm |
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The Nation: Sylvester Case Doesn't Add Upnew
The Nation |
03-03-2006 2:52 pm |
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Village Voice Editor: 'I'm Still Here'new
Gawker |
03-03-2006 7:05 am |
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Voice Writer Suspended for Fabricationsnew
The Village Voice removed this week's cover piece, "Do You Wanna Kiss Me?" from its Web site after learning that Senior Associate Editor Nick Sylvester invented a scene in the story. According to an editor's note posted on the Web site, Sylvester lied about meeting three TV writers in a bar to discuss pickup techniques. Sylvester admits that the "scene was a composite of specific anecdotes" and says he "deeply regret[s] this misinformation." The Voice has begun a review of the entire story.
The Village Voice |
03-02-2006 8:02 am |
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Voice Columnist Dishes on Celebrity Journalism
Michael Musto, who writes the "La Dolce Musto" column in the Voice, says his secret to staying relevant is keeping his distance from celebs, in this Toronto Star profile. Musto also claims that he "pioneered snark" and says that the proliferation of celebrity blogs and Web sites "forces me to go wilder and aim lower and provide something the Internet can't." Apparently, the decline in standards hasn't hurt Musto's reputation. Says here that "(h)e's been described rapturously as 'one of the wittiest stylists in the English language, master of the Oscar Wildesque segue.'"
02-28-2006 10:26 am |
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Voice's Hentoff on Cartoons: NY Press Walkout 'Admirable'new
The Village Voice |
02-21-2006 4:30 am |
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