"It's amazing how many great journalists still got their start at the Voice, even as it lost its ad revenue," Schoofs said. "Ad revenue was decimated - they literally could not afford to keep that many people on staff," Mark Schoofs, who snagged the Voice a Pulitzer during his near-decade as a staff writer in the '90s, said by phone Tuesday. It's an NYC media tradition nearly as rich as the personal essay on leaving New York: Announce the Voice has betrayed you memorialize her finer days and declare her, as did the deserter before you, dead in grit and relevance.īut the city's flagship alt-weekly, like many local papers, never quite recovered from the Great Recession and the transformation of the info economy. But as every writer - and reader - who's ever loved and left the Village Voice will tell you, the paper died countless mini-deaths before Barbey's final blow. Lauren Evans AugI'm not quite ready to pivot to video #VillageVoice Grabbing an issue was always the first thing I did when I visited New York, and writing for it was always my dream. All i ever wanted from age 16 was to be part of it Christopher Robbins Augi'm a Kansas kid who found the then syndicated Village Voice at a Borders in 1989. How hard is it to run a trenchant, funny, thoughtful alt-weekly, in a city teeming with underemployed talent, with infinite resources? However, her "iconic progressive brand" will live on as a website and event company, he said. The Voice as we knew her best - printed weekly and stacked in newsstands across NYC - died at the hands of Philadelphia millionaire Peter Barbey, who vowed when he purchased her from a previous owner that she'd "survive and prosper." Now, less than two years after the sale, she's no longer "viable" in physical form, Barbey said Tuesday.
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