The Village Voice

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The Village Voice

description Weekly newspaper
language English
First edition 1955
Frequency of publication weekly
Editor-in-chief Tony Ortega
editor Michael Cohen
Web link www.villagevoice.com/
ISSN (print)
The Village Voice editorial building at 36 Cooper Square in New York City

The Village Voice , or Voice for short , was a New York- based American weekly newspaper that published investigative articles, analyzes of current political developments, cultural and art criticism, and event announcements for New York City. It was the first and probably best known of the publications known as alternative weeklies (German alternative weeklies).

history

The Voice was founded in the fall of 1955 by Norman Mailer with the journalists Daniel Wolf (1916-1996) and Ed Fancher. She has published groundbreaking investigative journalism on urban politics in New York City, covering local and national politics as well as culture, music, dance, film and theater. An influential list of music known as Pazz & Jop is compiled each year from the top ten music critics around the country.

Many well-known writers have written for the Voice , including Ezra Pound , Henry Miller , Katherine Anne Porter , James Baldwin , ee cummings , Nat Hentoff , Tom Stoppard , Lorraine Hansberry , Allen Ginsberg , Michael Musto . In 1976 she published Fritz Lang's last interview.

Voice's competitors in New York City include New York Press , New York Observer, and Time Out New York . After decades of competitive pressure, Voice has been free since 1996. It is one of the weekly newspapers with the highest circulation and one of the most influential American organs.

Some newspapers in the United States are owned by the Voice : City Pages ( Minneapolis-St. Paul ), LA Weekly , Nashville Scene , OC Weekly , and Seattle Weekly .

The Voice announced on August 22, 2017 that it would discontinue its print version on a date to be announced.

Backpage sex trade

Backpage, a classified advertising website owned by the same parent company as Village Voice, was used as a hub for prostitution by both adults and minors.

After an article by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times about how a young woman was being sold by Backpage, and a reply from The Village Voice , Kristof replied that it was not his article but a formality that was falsely attempted to discredit and criticized that The Village Voice became the stooge of sex trafficking firms by attacking detective journalists.

After repeated calls for a boycott, The Village Voice was sold to the Voice Media Group .

See also

Web links

Commons : The Village Voice  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dan Wolf, 80, a Village Voice Founder, Dies . In: The New York Times. April 12, 1996.
  2. Manfred Redelfs: Investigative Reporting in the USA. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-322-91679-0 , p. 109.
  3. ^ John Leland, Sarah Maslin Nir: After 62 Years and Many Battles, Village Voice Will End Print Publication . In: The New York Times . August 22, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed August 25, 2017]).
  4. ^ Where Pimps Peddle Their Goods . In: The New York Times , March 17, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2019. 
  5. ^ What Nick Kristof Got Wrong: Village Voice Media Responds | Village Voice. November 15, 2017, accessed October 21, 2019 .
  6. Responding to Village Voice on Sex Trafficking [Opinion ] . March 21, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2019. 
  7. Kirsten Powers: Boycott Village Voice? Senators Push for Action on Backpage.com . April 19, 2012.

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