The Voice and its Village
September 20, 2018 11:39 AM   Subscribe

An alum looks back at the storied alt weekly [The Baffler]: "When I think about my two stints at the now-shuttered Village Voice—for which I freelanced regularly from the late seventies to the late eighties, returning as a staff writer from 1994-1999—one unexpected but apt word that keeps popping to mind is 'fecund.'" THE VILLAGE VOICE (1955–2018) [Art Forum]: "The destruction of the Village Voice—in the spirit of the paper itself, let’s not mince words about the nature of its ending—may not have been a surprise, but it was still a shock to the system." The demise of the Village Voice, previously: "Today is kind of a sucky day."
posted by mandolin conspiracy (3 comments total) 16 users marked this as a favorite
 
I'm confused. The print edition shut down a year ago or so, there was a lot of talk about that at the time. So I assumed this new round of the Voice disappearing meant the website was closing too. But the online edition is still around. What's the news here?
I miss the paper.
posted by Liquidwolf at 5:28 PM on September 20, 2018


I'm confused. The print edition shut down a year ago or so, there was a lot of talk about that at the time. So I assumed this new round of the Voice disappearing meant the website was closing too. But the online edition is still around. What's the news here?

From their announcement:

"Some staff members are being retained to “wind things down” and migrate the Voice’s archive online."

There is mostly archives on the site, even if the dateline is a current one, though there is a job opening posted...

Gawker still has their stuff online as does American Journalism Review, and they are no longer a thing, either.
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 6:07 AM on September 21, 2018


I used to describe our local alt.weekly the Chicago Reader as Chicago's Village Voice.

Now that the Village Voice is gone, what's New York's Chicago Reader?

(A sincere question from a Chicagoan who will soon be visiting New York.)
posted by MrJM at 9:09 AM on September 21, 2018


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