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| Village Voice on the ropes |
| 2012-08-19 |
| New York City must be one of the places where old hippies go to die. Hat tip to The Other Perfesser Alt-weeklies are always dying. But the news Friday that four editorial staffers were laid off or had their hours cut to part-time at The Village Voice -- two features writers, a news blogger and a listings editor -- makes the sad fact of that paper's eventual demise, evident for years, more immediate. The paper now has one news blogger, two features writers, a music editor, a few people working on listings and one critic, aided by a couple contributors, writing about food. The layoffs at the Voice weren't the only ones: papers across the Village Voice Media company, which owns more or less every notable alternative weekly nowadays, experienced layoffs, I've learned, including those in Minneapolis, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and Broward-Palm Beach. The Voice itself is planning to move out of its iconic East Village office space in the near future, as I and other staff members found out last year. There have been many ends of an era for a paper that always prided itself at being on the vanguard, but this one seems permanent and final: "I can't imagine how much leaner they can get," said a friend of mine who was recently let go from the Dallas Observer. More at the link |
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