At the same time, Mailer ’s lawyer dropped out of the partnership. When a second infusion of cash was needed, Mailer and Fancher each invested another $10,000, with new partner Howard Bennett also contributing funds. The erratically written, frequently controversial column proved short-lived, and after several stormy months the author returned to being a mostly silent partner, though he would later make contributions on an occasional basis. Mailer, originally expecting to sit on the sidelines, decided to begin writing a weekly column in early 1956. From the beginning the Voice included news articles, comprehensive entertainment listings, and reviews of Off- Broadway plays, books, movies, and more. Only about a fourth of the 10,000 copies printed were actually sold.
The first Village Voice, 12 pages long, hit the streets on October 26, 1955, selling for five cents at various locations in Lower Manhattan. After a small number of staffers were hired and ramshackle office space was rented, work on a debut issue began. Wolf, Fancher, and Mailer each were considered 30 percent owners, with Mailer ’s lawyer receiving a 10 percent stake in exchange for drawing up the corporate papers. Author Norman Mailer, a friend of Wolf ’s, completed the trio by matching Fancher ’s $5,000 to help fund the startup. Ed Fancher was a practicing psychologist who had earlier written for his college newspaper. Dan Wolf had worked as a freelance writer of encyclopedia articles and had also done some editing. Long a haven for artists, writers, and other bohemian types, Greenwich Village was also home to three World War II veterans who got together to start a news weekly that would speak to the values of the Village ’s residents. The company ’s origins date to 1955, the year that the Village Voice was founded in New York City ’s Greenwich Village. Village Voice Media is headed by former Stern President and Voice publisher David Schneiderman. Weiss, Peck & Greer also owns the 68-paper Lionheart Newspapers chain and Regent Communications, which operates 29 radio stations. Funds for the buyout came from investment firm Weiss, Peck & Greer and members of Stern management. Village Voice Media was formed in January 2000 to buy out Stern Publishing, which had owned the Voice since 1985 and had purchased all but one of the other papers in the late 1990s.
Paul, Cleveland, Nashville, and Orange County, California. Named after its flagship, New York City ’s Village Voice, the company also publishes similar papers in Los Angeles, Seattle, St. operates seven weekly “alternative ” newspapers in large U.S. The Voice as we knew her best - printed weekly and stacked in newsstands across NYC - died at the hands of Philadelphia millionaire Peter Barbey, who vowed when he purchased her from a previous owner that she'd "survive and prosper." Now, less than two years after the sale, she's no longer "viable" in physical form, Barbey said Tuesday.Village Voice Media, Inc. How hard is it to run a trenchant, funny, thoughtful alt-weekly, in a city teeming with underemployed talent, with infinite resources? However, her "iconic progressive brand" will live on as a website and event company, he said. All i ever wanted from age 16 was to be part of it Christopher Robbins Augi'm a Kansas kid who found the then syndicated Village Voice at a Borders in 1989. Lauren Evans AugI'm not quite ready to pivot to video #VillageVoice Grabbing an issue was always the first thing I did when I visited New York, and writing for it was always my dream. But as every writer - and reader - who's ever loved and left the Village Voice will tell you, the paper died countless mini-deaths before Barbey's final blow. It's an NYC media tradition nearly as rich as the personal essay on leaving New York: Announce the Voice has betrayed you memorialize her finer days and declare her, as did the deserter before you, dead in grit and relevance.īut the city's flagship alt-weekly, like many local papers, never quite recovered from the Great Recession and the transformation of the info economy. "Ad revenue was decimated - they literally could not afford to keep that many people on staff," Mark Schoofs, who snagged the Voice a Pulitzer during his near-decade as a staff writer in the '90s, said by phone Tuesday. "It's amazing how many great journalists still got their start at the Voice, even as it lost its ad revenue," Schoofs said. "But you need money to do journalism." The Village Voice was exposing Donald Trump when no one else was paying attention.
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