įor more than 40 years, Wayne Barrett was the newspaper's muckraker, covering New York real estate developers and politicians, including Donald Trump. Staff of the Voice joined a union, the Distributive Workers of America, in 1977. Other prominent regulars have included Peter Schjeldahl, Ellen Willis, Jill Johnston, Tom Carson, and Richard Goldstein. Another regular from that period was the cartoonist Kin Platt, who did weekly theatrical caricatures. John Wilcock wrote a column every week for the paper's first ten years. Įarly columnists of the 1950s and 1960s included Jonas Mekas, who explored the underground film movement in his "Film Journal" column Linda Solomon, who reviewed the Village club scene in the "Riffs" column and Sam Julty, who wrote a popular column on car ownership and maintenance. It moved to Cooper Square in the East Village in 1991, and in 2013, to the Financial District. In 1960, it moved from 22 Greenwich Avenue to 61 Christopher Street in a landmark triangular corner building adjoining Sheridan Square, and a few feet west of the Stonewall Inn then, from the 1970s through 1980, at 11th Street and University Place and then Broadway and 13th Street. The Village Voice was launched by Ed Fancher, Dan Wolf, and Norman Mailer on October 26, 1955, from a two-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village that was its initial coverage area, which expanded to other parts of the city by the 1960s.
The Voice 's website continues to feature archival material related to current events. A spring print edition was released in April 2021. In January 2021, new original stories began being published again on the website. Baker announced that the paper would resume publishing new articles both online and in a quarterly print edition. After halting print publication in 2017, the Voice provided daily coverage through its website until August 31, 2018, when it announced it was ceasing production of new editorial content. The final printed edition, featuring a 1965 photo of Bob Dylan on the cover, was distributed on September 21, 2017. The Voice announced on August 22, 2017, that it would cease publication of its print edition and convert to a fully digital venture, on a date to be announced. In October 2015, The Village Voice changed ownership and severed all ties with former parent company Voice Media Group (VMG). The Village Voice hosted a variety of writers and artists, including writer Ezra Pound, cartoonist Lynda Barry, artist Greg Tate, and film critics Andrew Sarris, Jonas Mekas and J. Over its 63 years of publication, The Village Voice received three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Press Foundation Award, and the George Polk Award. After an ownership change, the Voice reappeared in print as a quarterly in April 2021. It ceased publication in 2017, although its online archives remained accessible. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, the Voice began as a platform for the creative community of New York City. It has received three Pulitzer Prizes and many other awards over the years for its coverage of news, music, art, theater, film, politics, activism and more.īob Dylan was the cover star of its final issue, published in September 2017.The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. We are proud to be able to revive both the digital and print editions of this paper.” “For more than six decades, it was the heart of New York City and the voice of the community it served. The title “represents one of the most iconic papers in our nation and the very best of local media,” Calle enthused in a statement. The Village Voice was the country’s first alternative newsweekly, founded in 1955 by a group that included legendary writer Norman Mailer. “I think a lot of people will be hungry for this and I’m superoptimistic,” Calle told The Times. Also, the New York Times quotes Street Media CEO Brian Calle as saying the Village Voice will include a print periodical, expected to be published each quarter. In the years since, its website and social channels have been refreshed with articles posted from the vault.įrom next year, the site will get a revamp with fresh content. Village Voice Writers, Editors Recall Their First Story For the Defunct PublicationĪt the time of its closure, Barbey said the venerable title had bore the brunt of “the increasingly harsh economic realities” facing those creating journalism.
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