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Village Voice Senior Editor Awarded Newfield Professorship
Hunter College in New York City has selected Wayne Barrett to receive the inaugural Jack Newfield Visiting Professorship in Journalism. Newfield was an investigative journalist at the Voice from 1964 to 1988; he died of cancer in 2004. On the school's Web site, Hunter President Jennifer J. Rabb said, "As Jack Newfield's colleague at the Voice and an investigative journalist in his own right, Wayne Barrett brings a unique insight to Hunter students. They will learn from one of New York's best reporters how journalists can continually rediscover, and tell the story, of the drama of a great city remaking itself again and again."
02-20-2006 3:27 pm |
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At Voice, Reaction to Lacey Runs Gamut From 'Fear to Exhilaration'new
That's what a source told Boston Phoenix media critic Mark Jurkowitz after Village Voice Media's new Executive Editor Michael Lacey met with "about 30 staffers" in New York on Feb. 1. "This industry has been afflicted by this kind of shut-in mentality," Lacey told Jurkowitz. "Are people prepared to receive the message? There were a lot of people [at that meeting] who didn't like what I said." One of them was media columnist Sydney Schanberg, who said Lacey's "language was adversarial and pugnacious. ... He played the bully. I respond terribly to bullies." Voice columnist Nat Hentoff didn't respond well either, especially when Lacey criticized one of his columns and complained about "reporting that was stenography." But Hentoff decided not to resign because he's waiting to see how Lacey treats his work. Jurkowitz also covered the recent resignation of the editorial staff at the New York Press and interpreted the "turmoil" at both papers as "a sure indicator that the alt-weekly business ... is struggling for relevance in an increasingly fragmented marketplace."
The Boston Phoenix |
02-16-2006 7:55 am |
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Village Voice's 'Bush Beat' Column Canceled by New Managementnew
The Village Voice |
02-14-2006 10:10 am |
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Lacey Tells Voice Staff: Less Commentary, More Hard Newsnew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
02-07-2006 9:08 pm |
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NY Press' Knipfel Shares His Distaste for New Voice Publishernew
New York Press |
02-02-2006 8:27 am |
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Village Voice Publisher Axednew
New York Post |
01-25-2006 8:30 am |
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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 |
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Co-Founder of The Stranger Takes Comics Seriously
James Sturm recently talked to the Village Voice about the Vermont school he co-founded, the Center for Cartoon Studies, which is pursuing accreditation. Before co-founding The Stranger, Sturm worked with the comic magazine RAW.
01-18-2006 2:41 pm |
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Tags: The Village Voice, The Stranger
Vermont Woman Experiences Village Voice Holiday Mishap
Kathryn Drury had about 40 Christmas gifts to ship. Procrastinating until the bitter end, she was forced to wrap all the presents in a rush one evening. When she ran out of traditional holiday paper, she improvised with a stack of old newspapers. It wasn't until the next day, after the gifts were mailed, that it dawned on Drury that her ersatz wrapping paper was the Village Voice, home to "pages and pages of personal ads, including gay porn, leather, punishment, phone sex and escort services," Drury tells The Burlington Free Press. "I had just sent boxes of presents to my husband's very Catholic family adorned with naked ladies in string bikinis and muscular, well-oiled men in jock straps."
12-28-2005 4:19 pm |
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NY Press Says It's Good the Voice Is 'Getting Rid of the Stodgy Crew'new
New York Press |
12-08-2005 6:52 am |
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Forst: Wants to 'Look Around and Examine Other Possibilities'new
New York Times |
12-06-2005 11:29 am |
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Village Voice Announces Editor Forst's Resignationnew
The Village Voice |
12-05-2005 3:28 pm |
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Village Voice's Schanberg Says New York Magazine "Chose to Omit" the Truthnew
Village Voice (2nd item) |
11-15-2005 2:00 pm |
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The Village Voice-iest Movie Ever?
With its New York literary milieu and occasional references to Voice co-founder Norman Mailer, Noah Baumbach's new film is stuffed so full of Village Voice-ness that Voice film critic J. Hoberman was compelled to attach the following disclosure to the end of his review: "If I hadn't liked The Squid and the Whale so much, I might have begged off reviewing. For, while I have only the slightest personal acquaintance with the filmmaker, I do know his brother, his father, and particularly, his mother, former Voice movie critic Georgia Brown." Despite his lineage, however, Baumbach didn't show much concern for the Voice's brand reputation: The only time the paper appears in the movie, it is being read by Jeff Daniels' Bernard Berkman character, which is the family-satire equivalent of a product endorsement by Hannibal Lecter.
11-07-2005 2:58 pm |
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Tags: The Village Voice
Michael Lacey Talks About the Village Voicenew
New York Magazine's lengthy feature asks: Can the "potty-mouthed new owner" make the legendary downtown paper "relevant again?" In a colorful interview, New Times' executive editor reveals his hopes "that the Voice employees would realize a union wasn’t necessary" and says that he likes "the arts coverage. But we’ve got to work on the front of the book." In response to charges of conservatism, Lacey argues that his "papers have butt-violated every goddamn politician who ever came down the pike" before concluding, "Of course, you want people who love the place, but this is a business that is based on performance. It isn’t a legacy." VVM CEO David Schneiderman and several present and former Voice staffers also offer their thoughts on changes at the paper.
New York Magazine |
11-07-2005 9:24 am |
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