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Village Voice Columnist Launches Sex Education Websitenew
Vivid Entertainment Press Release |
04-09-2007 2:59 pm |
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Longtime Village Voice Art Critic Leaves for New York Magazinenew
Jerry Saltz, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for criticism, will start at New York in April, the New York Observer reports. Saltz joined the Voice in 1998. "Jerry is one of the city's most well-respected critics," Voice editor Tony Ortega says in a staff memo. "I know he'll continue doing outstanding work for his new editors just as he's done at the Voice for so long."
New York Observer |
04-02-2007 8:24 am |
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Former Staffer Returns to Voice as Arts & Culture Editornew
On Monday, Brian Parks will take over the post vacated when Joy Press recently left for Salon. During his previous 13-year tenure with the alt-weekly, Parks was a copy editor, copy chief and senior editor. He left in 2003 to work on his playwriting career. More recently, Parks has helped the Voice by providing "backup editing for various parts of the paper," editor Tony Ortega says in a staff memo.
The New York Observer |
03-30-2007 8:30 am |
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Village Voice's Communications Director Deals with Turbulencenew
Maggie Shnayerson began her tenure at the Voice in January, long after media coverage of the alt-weekly had soured. The Dartmouth grad "has handled the less-than-placid situation with an aplomb that belies the fact that she is only 25," PR Web says. She originally wanted to be a reporter, but took a communications position at the New York Sun in 2003, which eventually led her to the Voice. Shnayerson seems unphased by the incessantly negative coverage of the post-merger Voice. "You're doing something right if people are shooting at you," she says.
PR Week |
03-28-2007 8:42 am |
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Village Voice Staff Writer Heads to New York Observernew
Felix Gillette is leaving the Voice to report on media for the salmon-colored broadsheet tabloid, according to an internal e-mail leaked to Gawker. Gillette, who also previously served as a staff writer for the Washington City Paper, joins a procession of young writers with alt-weekly experience who have been hired to do media reporting for the Observer. Other hires include Tom Scocca and Sridhar Pappu. CORRECTION: The New York Observer has not been a "salmon-colored broadsheet" since Feb. 14, when it switched to a tabloid format.
Gawker |
03-14-2007 2:46 pm |
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VVM's Michael Lacey: 'We Didn't Expect Things to Go Smoothly'new
In a conversation with the New York Times' David Carr, Village Voice Media's executive editor addresses the editorial merry-go-round at the chain's flagship paper. "We didn't expect things to happen overnight," Lacey says. He also tells Carr that a move to New York might be in the cards once his kids leave for college. "I'm not going to edit the paper hands-on," he says, "but I will be close enough to make whoever is editing the paper more miserable than they already are."
The New York Times |
03-12-2007 8:38 am |
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David Blum Says He Never Had VVM's Confidence as Voice Editornew
"My job as editor in chief of The Village Voice was not all spent putting out the newspaper, but also keeping people happy thousands of miles away," Blum tells the New York Observer. Blum says he received frequent calls and e-mails from VVM headquarters about running the paper. An unnamed Voice staffer tells the Observer it wasn't clear the j-school adjunct was "comfortable in the editor role," noting he was more at ease with recent hires from Columbia Univ. than with longtime Voice staffers.
The New York Observer |
03-07-2007 11:49 am |
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Blum's Comments on Race Not Behind Firingnew
Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey says Blum was dismissed due to differences over "administrative style" and because he didn't get enough "news in the paper."
The Village Voice |
03-06-2007 2:04 pm |
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'One Less Minority' At Village Voicenew
The day after last week's staff meeting at which concerns about newsroom diversity were raised, Village Voice Media laid off minority writer Corina Zappia, according to the Huffington Post. Zappia, who worked for the internet division, says she hadn't had a negative performance review nor been given any sort of warning. She also notes that although she had spoken up at last week's staff meeting, there was no connection between that and her dismissal. The Huffington Post reports that a HR complaint relating to Zappia's discharge remains unresolved.
The Huffington Post |
03-06-2007 1:41 pm |
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Tony Ortega 'Won't Be Easily Replaced'new
Writing on the New Times Broward-Palm Beach's Daily Pulp blog, staff writer Bob Norman says "Ortega's announcement at a meeting yesterday left the staff under what I can I only describe as a funereal pall." He predicts Ortega "will sit in the editor's chair at the Voice for as long he wants to be there," because he has "the temperament to weather the shitstorm" and the "hard-earned trust" of Village Voice Media Executive Editor Mike Lacey.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
03-06-2007 11:40 am |
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Tony Ortega Named Village Voice Editornew
That was quick. Less than one business day after David Blum was fired, Village Voice Media announce that the editor of New Times Broward-Palm Beach will replace him. Ortega, 43, who started his career in 1995 at the Phoenix New Times, is the third editor-in-chief hired by the Manhattan alt-weekly since Don Forst left 14 months ago. "Lincoln promoted General Grant late in the game. Stalin promoted Marshall Zukoff late in the game," explains Executive Editor Michael Lacey. "Tony Ortega is the right man at the right time."
The Village Voice |
03-05-2007 5:18 pm |
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'Management Concerns' Led to David Blum's Firingnew
Despite earlier reports that Blum was fired as a result of comments he made at a staff meeting last week, Voice spokesperson Maggie Shnayerson tells AP that the meeting was only a "catalyst" for the editor's dismissal. "It was not a decision that was reached in any kind of knee-jerk way," says Shnayerson. Blum's response to concerns about racial diversity that were raised during the meeting may have offended some people, Voice staff writer Wayne Barrett confirms, but everyone seems to agree that his remarks weren't a firing offense. "There were disagreements about the amount of emphasis he had given so far to hiring minorities," an unnamed staffer tells the New York Times. "There was nothing said in that meeting by David Blum that was racist."
AP via Newsday | New York Times |
03-05-2007 10:13 am |
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David Blum Out as Voice Editornew
At a Friday afternoon meeting, Village Voice staffers were told that Blum was "no longer the editor of the paper" as a result of unspecified comments he made that were "unacceptable," according to Gawker. Radar reports that Bill Jensen, director of Web and digital operations for Village Voice Media, has been named interim editor.
Gawker | Radar |
03-02-2007 7:19 pm |
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Village Voice Names New Managing Editornew
Deborah Kolben, most recently city editor of the New York Sun, will join the Voice in April, reports the New York Observer. The winner of two National Newspaper Association awards for investigative reporting, she becomes the third former Sun employee to join the alt-weekly's staff since ex-Sun TV critic David Blum took over as editor-in-chief, according to the Observer. "I grew up in New York reading the Voice and I'm looking forward to being a part of a newspaper that plays such a vital role for so many in New York and elsewhere," Kolben says.
New York Observer |
02-26-2007 5:01 pm |
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Early Village Voicers Reminisce at New York Forumnew
The focus of Saturday's panel was the Voice's impact on the theater, as drama critic Jerry Talmer, co-founder Edwin Fancher and cartoonist Jules Feiffer "trigger[ed] each other's memories about the early days of America's first alt-weekly," according to the Villager, a Greenwich Village community newspaper. The discussion ranged from the paper's creation of the Obie Awards -- Off-Broadway's highest honor -- to the merits of today's Voice to the role of World War II in the paper's origins. "There was the feeling in all of us that we have survived this ordeal, and they can't do anything to us," said Fancher, who, like co-founders Norman Mailer and Dan Wolf, served in the war. "We can have an open newspaper, and no one will shoot us."
The Villager |
02-23-2007 11:48 am |
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Tags: Editorial, The Village Voice
