NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of The Village Voice says the venerable alternative weekly will cease publication.
Friday’s announcement by Voice owner Peter Barbey comes three years after Barbey bought the paper and one year after it ceased publishing in print.
Barbey called Friday “a sad day for The Village Voice and millions of readers.” He said the paper has been subject to “the increasingly harsh economic realities” facing those creating journalism.
He said staff members have been working to ensure that the print archive of the Voice is made digitally accessible.
The Village Voice was the country’s first alternative newsweekly, founded in 1955 by a group that included writer Norman Mailer.
It has received three Pulitzer Prizes and many other awards over the years.
It’s a damn shame.
My favorite classified from the Voice:
This New Yorker grew up reading the Village Voice. From Wayne Barrett to Jack Newfield exposing Trump’s fraudulent schemes to the coverage of the assorted municipal scandals helped to influence my political views on the need of transparent effective governance. The yearly ten worst landlords kind of forced me to save money and buy a coop.
Of course the arts and music reviews. Like many readers it will be missed.
Patient or staff?
Sunday morning walk, no matter the weather, pick up the local Sunday paper and The Voice at the Hausfrau Haven. Walk home make a pot of tea…
There is no village to have a voice any more.