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Village Voice Media or VVM is a newspaper company. It began in 1970 as a weekly alternative newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona.The company, founded by Michael Lacey (editor) and Jim Larkin (publisher), was then known as New Times Inc. (NTI) and the publication was named New Times.
James Lewis Hoberman (born March 14, 1949) [1] [2] is an American film critic, journalist, [3] author and academic. He began working at The Village Voice in the 1970s, became a full-time staff writer in 1983, and was the newspaper's senior film critic from 1988 to 2012. [4]
Despite these efforts, in 2011, the Village Voice in New York was protested by demonstrators accusing the paper of promoting sex trafficking, [143] and a coalition of 36 clergies denounced the paper in a full-page ad in The New York Times. [144] Negative news stories about Backpage were frequent. [145] [146]
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The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. [4] 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.
The Pazz & Jop was introduced by The Village Voice in 1971 as an album-only poll; [5] it was expanded to include votes for singles in 1979. [6] Throughout the years, other minor lists had been elicited from poll respondents for releases such as extended plays, [7] music videos, [8] album re-issues, [9] and compilation albums—all of which were discontinued after only a few years. [10]
Wayne Barrett (July 11, 1945 – January 19, 2017) was an American journalist.He worked as an investigative reporter and senior editor for The Village Voice for 37 years, and was known as a leading investigative journalist focused on power and politics in the United States.
Wolf founded the Village Voice on October 26, 1955 with the novelist Norman Mailer and Edwin Fancher, a former truck driver who trained as a psychologist. [7] They started the newspaper with $10,000 and no journalism experience, with Fancher as the publisher, Wolf as the editor-in-chief, and Mailer as a silent partner who supplied most of the capital, following the success of The Naked and the ...