The iconic Village Voice closes shop after 62 years – PB/TK
10 Ex-Village Voice Staffers Share What They Learned – And Why The Paper Mattered – By Zach Schonfeld, Claire Shaffer & Stav Ziv (newsweek.com) / Aug 25 2017
It was already a dark, disheartening year to work in journalism—industry-wide layoffs, “pivots to video,” near-daily attacks from President Trump. Then the Village Voice announced that it’s shuttering its beloved print publication after 62 years.
The publication will carry on in digital form, but the recognizable alt-weekly paper format—distributed free since 1996 from those immediately identifiable red-and-blue distribution boxes—will soon be history.
For New Yorkers with even the slightest inclination toward the counterculture, it is the end of an era. For the brilliant writers and editors who worked there, though, it’s something more personal: The Village Voice has been a home for writerly eccentrics and misfits, a boot camp, a cultural epicenter, an institution. As longtime Voice staff writer Greg Tate says, writing for the alt-weekly made music writers feel like they were rock stars too.
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