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more about #villagevoice more comments → SecureLocation: I hear the halls of RD headquarters ijn Pleasantville are emptier than Dick Cheney's heart more » BxgrlJeri: I had an aunt who worked for Reader's Digest when I was a kid and she said it was a great place to work. I only remember a lot (a whole lot) of shark... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: i never thought much about reader's digest always being in my grandparents' house until i went back as an adult and read it -- really fringe rightwing... more » TheBusinessGuy: Layoffs: The Best Medicine more » A Message To Rudy: I hope Joe's Kidney can find work. more » TedSez: It no longer pays to increase your word power. more » onebadclam: I understand the Reader's Digest pink slips were incredibly concise. more » Swordfish: So do the layoffs at CN mean that they're going to unload a couple of dozen of those VF "Contributing Editors" who get paid a handsome sum each month ... more » miss_msry: I can only pray my 401K isn't jumping on the "newspapers are back" bandwagon. more » TrevorNatta: I will never forget the thrill of The Village Voice when I arrived in NYC for college in the fall of 1975 from an upstate small town. The ads for gay... more » DennyCrane: It's sad, because Tom Robbins' weekly skewering of Bloomberg has been fantastic reading, and really the only critical voice in a NYC media that has fa... more » Rozelle’s Bagman: Back in college I worked in a library that for some reason hoarded VV back to the mid-70s. It was interesting to see how straightforward the writing ... more » 1.1.1.: Am I the only one who clicked on the "New Wave" article link thinking I was going be reading a takedown of Truffaut and Godard? more » se7a7n7: Just about every free weekly alternative paper in the US was based on the Village Voice. The Voice clones were all bought by New Times Media. Then Ne... more » BxgrlJeri: Graham Parker, Joan Armatrading and ads for stereo equipment that made your music actually sound good. Major sigh. OH GOD I'M AN OLD!!!!! more » -
#mediacrack
Rumor: Layoffs at Reader's Digest (Updated)
In your maudlin Wednesday media column: rumors of Reader's Digest layoffs [Update: And RD's response], a guarantee of Conde Nast layoffs, and the debate over the newspaper industry is one-sided, to be honest. More » -
#history
Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
Google has put the complete archives of the Village Voice online, going back to 1955. So go while away the hours by traveling back to a New York with a fascist mayor, a groundbreaking music scene, and closeted gay people. More » -
#insidemediasoftball
Old Person Blogs Thing Nobody Cares About
Village Voice EIC Tony Ortega has nothing to do during the weekend but read us. Yay, readers! :) ANYWAY. Ortega made an item out of Ian Speigelman's anti-Nick Denton screed in yesterday's comments. But: irony. More » -
#breaking
Swine Flu Hits Village Voice
Everyone has stopped caring about the Swine Flu, except at still-publishing O.G. alt-weekly The Village Voice, where an intern was just diagnosed with it! More » -
#mediacrack
Time Inc.'s Painfully Slow Layoffs Continue
In today's media column: Time Inc still firing people, Plenty folds, a new FCC chief, a crazy media idea that won't work, and more! More » -
#mediacrack
Your Daily Dose of Media Tidbits
We're starting a new, daily media column for all the media news items we can't get to individually. It may also feature pithy remarks and totally exclusive scoops. Read it today, and forevermore: More » -
#layoffs
Village Voice Fires 50-Year Writer, Last Black Writer
Even as the New Yorker waxes nostalgic on the glory days of the Village Voice, the weekly is severing more of its legacy, including Nat Hentoff, hired in 1958. More » -
#trendwatch
Print's Epitaph: We Were the Original Blog
As print dies, we will no doubt see an avalanche of obituaries for once-great, now-decrepit publications. In this vein, The New Yorker's Louis Menand celebrates the Village Voice's heyday in the late 1950's and early 1960s. More » -
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#gossip
Michael Musto is Tired of Flaky New York Editors, Just Like Us!
Village Voice gossip columnist Michael Musto is just another frustrated freelancer when it comes to New York magazine, he complains. That's exactly how his blog should be used, by the way—for bitching!
