In your tragic Thursday media column: more info on the companywide layoffs at Village Voice Media, the NYT Co. makes money, a Washington Post heiress has a bright idea, The Economist screws up, and newspaper layoffs are back.
In your hopeful Wednesday media column: someone gives Capital New York some dough, Chris Rovzar leaves New York, Elisabeth Murdoch has tons of News Corp shareholder cash, Village Voice sex lawsuit dismissed, and the world's highest paid authors.
Famous Twitter user Ashton Kutcher is extremely upset at the Village Voice. The paper wrote a cover story making fun of him and bashing his anti-sex trafficking efforts. Now he will make sure no company advertises in the paper or on its site, ever.
In your ferocious Friday media column: bad PR for Village Voice Media, Glenn Greenwald's in fine form, Bloomberg's up, the NYT Co. is down, and Judith Regan still exists.
Craigslist shut down its Adult Services section, caving to Attorneys General and anti-sex trafficking groups. But, as we pointed out, there are many other places to buy sex online. One, Backpage.com, is being sued by a former child prostitute.
As you've probably heard, Craigslist shut down its 'Adult Services' section this weekend, caving to pressure from Attorneys General and anti-trafficking groups. But Craigslist is far from the only place to score sex on the Internet. Here are six alternatives!
Newspapers steal stories from each other all the the time, even staffers. But Village Voice Media just had its vans seized by an alt-weekly competitor in San Francisco. We knew the industry was getting desperate, but, damn.
(UPDATED) After eight years as editor in chief, Laurie Ochoa is leaving LA Weekly as Village Voice Media severs more of its own legacy.
Gasp! Village Voice Media abuses Digg. But ineffectively.
We hear Village Voice Media has bought a controlling interest in social networking site LikeMe.net. But we can't imagine why.
All charges against Village Voice Media executives Mike Lacey and Jim Larkin were dropped over the weekend, and the special prosecutor running the case against their paper, the Phoenix New Times, has been fired. (The paper was exploring misconduct by a local law official.) The Arizona State Bar is now investigating…
The co-founders of New Times, now known as Village Voice Media*, were arrested last night ("led away in handcuffs," according to their press release), at their homes in Phoenix, AZ, on misdemeanor charges related to revealing details of a grand jury investigation. Mike Lacey, the company's executive editor, and Jim…
Yesterday's news that the alt-weeklies Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper had been sold to Creative Loafing, which owns a few alt-weeklies in the Southeast, left some people a little puzzled—especially employees of both papers, who didn't seem aware in the slightest that their publications were on the block at…
Music critic Kate Sullivan, a favorite of ours, has been canned by Village Voice Media's L.A. Weekly as part of an ongoing effort by the magazine's parent company to enforce a lifeless, stultifying conformity in the pages of its papers. [Tabloid Baby]
"I'm a bad lesbian." We can't claim any expertise in the area, but if this accompanying photo is any indication, you seem to be doing just fine. Also, you stay classy, Village Voice Media. [Phoenix New Times, via]
There are two types of blogospheric sensations: the utterly predictable (the electronic op-edification provided by the Huffington Post, the breathless bitchiness barfed up by Gawker) and the truly original. We lean toward the latter around here—you know, stuff that actually involves independent thinking.
