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Village Voice Closes Office on Weekendsnew
The Village Voice joins other New York media outlets in beefing up security after the attacks on the World Trade Center and anthrax scares, the New York Post reports. "We have a responsibility to keep the building as safe as possible," Voice Publisher Judy Miszner tells the Post.
New York Post |
10-15-2001 7:16 am |
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Tags: The Village Voice, Judith Miszner
New York Arab-Americans Caught in the Middlenew
Witnessing the destruction of the World Trade Center and hearing the news reports linking the tragedy to Arab terrorism, Arab-Americans feel like they're "caught between the horse and the horseshoe," The Village Voice reports.
Village Voice |
09-18-2001 8:13 am |
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Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Alternative Papers Rip Up Fronts to Cover Terrorist Nightmare
Across the country, alternative newsweeklies ditched their planned front pages as the awesome events of Tuesday unfolded. East Coast papers like The Village Voice and Washington City Paper are sharing stories and pictures with colleagues from Maine to California.
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AAN Staff |
09-12-2001 4:11 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, Boston Phoenix, Cincinnati CityBeat, City Newspaper, Creative Loafing (Atlanta), Gambit, Nashville Scene, The Village Voice, Philadelphia City Paper, Metroland, Washington City Paper, Willamette Week, Colorado Springs Independent, The Local Planet Weekly, Monterey County Weekly, Illinois Times
Village Voice Reporter at the Scene of Devastationnew
Alisa Solomon emerged from a subway stop near the World Trade Center seconds before its second tower was struck by a plane. "(W)e knew in our bellies that America was changed forever," she writes in the Village Voice online report. "Arms, legs. Parts of people. They were falling on my head," said an administrative assistant who was about to enter the WTC when the first plane hit.
Village Voice |
09-11-2001 11:19 am |
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Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
Festival Participant Asks: "Where's the Teamwork From Editorial?"new
After playing the Village Voice's Siren Music Festival with his band, Jazz Beard Jr., R. James Bagget says he was shocked at Amy Phillips' "sarcastic tone and lack of genuine enthusiasm" in her preview of the event that was published in the Voice. "(I)t is profoundly ironic that one of the Voice's main competitors (Time Out) ran a much larger and more laudatory preview," he writes in his letter-to-the-editor.
The Village Voice |
08-13-2001 11:51 am |
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Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
CJR Extends Laurels to Three AAN Membersnew
In its summer issue, Columbia Journalism Review tenders "laurels" to three AAN members – The Village Voice, the Nashville Scene, and Tampa’s Weekly Planet – for “good old-fashioned criticism of the big boys in town.” The journalism-mag crowns the beneficiaries with a left-handed compliment: “Who says the alternative press has sold its birthright for a mess of personal ads and restaurant reviews?”
CJR |
08-07-2001 11:50 am |
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Voice's Conservative Lesbian Columnist Makes Wavesnew
Norah Vincent, a lesbian columnist for The Village Voice and other publications, seriously ticks off much of the gay and lesbian community, The New York Times reports. Vincent, whose views are way right of center, says many in the gay community “dislike anyone they see as disagreeing with them.” Voice Editor Don Forst defends his decision to run her column: “She gets people to read her. And if she introduces thoughts that they haven't had, that's terrific."
New York Times |
08-06-2001 11:51 am |
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