“The Voice may be bigger than print and ink or any owner, editor, medium, or era, but this paper belonged to New York, and the people who have worked for it have served both the Voice and the city in exemplary fashion. Over the years, SmokeScreen has grown its brand, digging into the lore, and expanding its influence. It’s the latest move in the once-vaunted alternative weekly’s slow transition to a bloodless digital media brand. Editor Stephen Mooallem said the roughly 500,000 pages of Voice archives would remain for the time-being “a state-of-the-art analog experience. About a week after the Village Voice decided it would end its 62-year run in print and become an online-only operation, the newspaper announced it would also lay off 13 of its 17 remaining union employees. What happens next for the Village Voice could represent a bellwether for the rest of the publishing industry looking toward an all-digital future.

“So enough with the eulogies for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, two relics demolished not by the internet but their own narcissistic, congenital nostalgia,” Callahan crowed. The storied New York tabloid the Village Voice already down to around two dozen employees is now officially dead, its owner announced Friday. While many mourn the Voice’s physical passing, others have been less charitable.Ĭontrarian New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan wrote that the changes at the Voice and the sale of Rolling Stone meant post-war baby boomers were finally releasing their “chokehold on American culture”. The images include the infamous denizens of the downtown realm – William Burroughs (with sword), the Beastie Boys, Madonna, Jack Kerouac – while cartoonist Steve Brodner reminisced: “This is journalism – authentic, fearless, two-fisted, pure.” Media in category 'The Village Voice' The following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total. In the final edition, a photo section celebrated the photographers and writers who “looked out at the rest of the world from south of 14th Street”. Congratulations to Brian Parks, who has been named senior editor in charge of the theatre section of NYs Village Voice newspaper. In severing the Voice from its physical existence, owner and publisher Peter Barbey said the 62-year old print publication had been “a public forum for ideas and a cultural touchstone for the progressive thought and envelope-pushing aesthetics that defined New York”. Michael Musto, the longtime nightlife columnist, marked the occasion with a return of his “La Dulce Musto” column.īy mid-morning on Thursday, many of the publication’s distinctive red distribution boxes were empty, copies collected up by souvenir hunters.

The 176-page issue features a 50-page portfolio of journalistic luminaries who helped define the publication, including Voice co-founder Ed Fancher, theater critic Michael Feingold and film critics J Hoberman and Amy Taubin. Photographed in a salute, the image of Dylan was taken in January 1965, near the old offices of the Voice.

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