Village Voice Media being acquired by New Times very soon

Eason said cuts could come from City Paper's production staff; all Creative Loafing papers are produced and printed in Atlanta to save money.

Rumor has it that more such cuts just happened at the Washington City Paper.

Art and production moves to Atlanta 10-26. Creative Loafing budget cuts and production changes mean music coverage will be reduced further, and deadlines will be earlier.

New Times / Village Voice Media head Lacey arrested.. for a very interesting reason.

http://www.kpho.com/news/14376424/detail.html

sorry, no titillation here, but a pretty fascinating story.

Yep

Titillation provided in the form of inmates with pink underwear,

joe arpaio is nuts.

wow that is so fucked.

The subpoenas also seek online profiles of anyone who read four specific articles about Arpaio and profiles of anyone who visited the paper's Web site since Jan. 1, 2004. Also sought was information on what Web users did while on the site, the story said.

http://www.apbweb.com/images/articles-5-16-07.gif

this isn't wdylll dude

phwoarr

hahah xpost

here's yer titillation:

watch me shoot down my future career prospects while drunk: new times media can suck my cock until i cum blood

-- PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Monday, September 4, 2006 9:45 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

classic post

Ooh la la, Jess' bloodcum.

Subpoenas being dropped.

wow, a small victory for the SFBG, esp the "for immediate collection" part which may not be so small!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/07/MNG21BF2MH.DTL&tsp=1

So, Wayne Barrett and Tom Robbins are gone.

RIP zombie voice.

Ny Times re this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/nyregion/05voice.html?nl=todaysheadlines&adxnnl=1&emc=tha29&adxnnlx=1294236058-/ZtTDoIbfQ7VpktJUdTIUw

Maybe they have inspired some younger less-well paid Voice staffers and freelancers (who may or may not have the time to do investigative reporting because of whatever else they do to pay their bills)

So the Voice site is basically all about girls gone wild titty slideshows now?

Just one of the choices, isn't it? A few folks read their online music crit offerings, I guess.

I look through Musto and the increasingly scant film/theatre coverage, that's about it.

City Pages ran a Phoenix New Times story about DMX on the cover this week.

Not that I'm not interested in DMX, just that I don't recall syndicated cover stories.

DC City Paper has been running less newsprint pages. Between the recession, the diminished number of folks reading newsprint, the financial limitations of the owners of these publications and online competition, alt-weeklies need feisty ad salespeople I guess who can somehow get more ads and bring in revenue.

TBF I think a lot of the functions of an alt-weekly actually can be properly taken over, if not done better, by a plethora of websites (music and film coverage, bizarro classifieds, rancorous firespitting about whatever). The main thing to be missed is the local investigative stuff. Still not sure there's a good web model for that yet, although I guess someone will figure it out and maybe they already have.

Whee

http://gawker.com/5945821/village-voice-medias-last-ditch-effort-to-save-itself-will-probably-fail

Maybe NY ilxors can buy it.

So I wonder how SouthComm, which publishes eight alt-weeklies, including the Atlanta one and the Washington City Paper is doing?

http://storify.com/connorsimpson/tricia-romano-on-the-village-voice

Damn. Im getting misty eyed, seriously.

Is their mangement style less damaging at some of their other papers?

Under the terms of the agreement, Voice Media Group will own and operate the following print publications and corresponding digital properties: Village Voice (New York), LA Weekly (Los Angeles), Westword (Denver), New Times (Phoenix), Houston Press, Dallas Observer, Riverfront Times (St. Louis), New Times (Miami), City Pages (Minneapolis), New Times (Broward), SF Weekly (San Francisco), Seattle Weekly, and OC Weekly (Orange County). Voice Media Group will also purchase and take over VVMH's national advertising division, which will now be called VMG National. VMG National will continue to sell national advertising for more than 56 partner sites and publications, reaching more than 3 million readers across 56 key metro markets each week.

http://www.wvva.com/story/19619001/newly-formed-denver-holding-company-voice-media-group-to-acquire-village-voice-media-publishing-properties

management

thanks for the link to the tricia romano twitter thing, good read

I had not seen the actual print Voice in a long time (would read some of it on the Internet) and then last week I saw one, holy shit it's a pamphlet

love this:

I miss Xgau, wearing trademark jeans, rock T, headphones, stopping and saying: "Tricia: The new Common record," and sighing.

Man, the stuff we made fun of upthread is SO much better than what they publish now

Fire sale is on! I guess. Seattle Weekly and SF Weekly have both been sold.

just struck me how much pathos is in the phrase "acquired by new times" (or "discarded by new times," for that matter)

Thought maybe this revive was about another wave of classic jazz albums we should hear before we die.

http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/01/09/sf-weekly-sold-to-bay-guardian-publisher/

, Voice Media Group will continue to own and operate the following print publications and corresponding digital properties: Village Voice (New York), LA Weekly (Los Angeles), Westword (Denver), New Times (Phoenix), Houston Press, Dallas Observer, Riverfront Times (St. Louis), New Times (Miami), City Pages (Minneapolis), New Times (Broward) and OC Weekly (Orange County).

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Seattle-Weekly-sold-to-Sound-Publishing-4179877.php

For now.

boy it would be nice if somebody bought them and rethought the game.

i got $47 in my checking account, lemme see how many papers i can buy with that

man, i looked at the voice website this morning wondering if p+j was up yet, it's total garbage now

i never read any of those sites anymore, laweekly especially is sickeningly terrible.

"The sale of SF Weekly will allow Voice Media Group to focus on growth opportunities for mobile and online platforms and to develop core digital offerings in its other key markets."

so another blogging platform full stop is the gameplan then.

just looked at the voice website just now. holy *shit* is that ugly, like throwback to 1996 webdesign, netscape navigator 1.0 compatible ugly. and then there are just huge amounts of links to articles in basically three blogs/"verticals" and that seems like the entire goddamn site.

I was always glad that the Metro Times was never bought by these clowns.

God I love digital properties.

thank got Seattle Weekly wasn't sold to the Seattle Times, as was rumored. hopefully it will become semi-decent again.