AAN News
New Times, Village Voice Merger Closes
01-31-2006 3:14 pm |
Press Releases
Village Voice Publisher Axednew
New York Post |
01-25-2006 8:30 am |
Industry News
Jim Larkin Names New Publisher at Village Voice
The new CEO of Village Voice Media announced Tuesday that Michael Cohen has been named publisher of the chain's flagship paper. In an e-mail message to Village Voice staffers, Larkin said that Cohen resigned his current position as publisher of Miami New Times and will take the helm at the Voice on Monday Jan. 30. Cohen, who has been in the alternative-weekly publishing business
for 22 years, began his career in ad sales at the Baltimore City Paper in 1983 and moved to New York five years later to help launch the New York Press as its ad director. He returned to New York in 2000 to serve briefly as publisher of the Press; he also served stints as publisher of AAN member papers Fairfield County Weekly and Philadelphia Weekly. In a separate e-mail to the Voice staff, Judy Miszner announced that Tuesday was her last day as the paper's publisher. "I thank all of you for making these the 7 best years of my career," she wrote.
01-24-2006 10:39 pm |
Industry News
Ohio Attorney General Will Not Fight New Times-Village Voice Mergernew
The Athens News |
01-05-2006 8:47 am |
Industry News
Ohio 'Studying' Village Voice-New Times Mergernew
According to Cleveland's The Plain Dealer, Attorney General Jim Petro is looking for potential antitrust violations that would result from the merger. The paper quotes a senior attorney with Petro's office who said the deal "raises new concerns that combining these two publishing companies would eliminate or restrain competition between them in some markets where they operate rival newsweeklies with overlapping advertising and news coverage." (Ed.: VVM and New Times no longer operate "rival newsweeklies" in the same market.) The attorney was commenting in response to a letter complaining about the merger written by Terry Smith, the editor of AAN-member paper The Athens News.
The Plain-Dealer |
12-19-2005 3:19 pm |
Industry News
Los Angeles Ponders the Future of L.A. Weeklynew
Los Angeles Times staff writer Scott Martelle describes the fears and hopes for L.A. Weekly's role in the New Times-controlled Village Voice Media. He details the turbulent recent history of alt-weeklies in Los Angeles and speaks to several notable Angelenos. Local pol Jackie Goldberg, "a frequent target of New Times LA columnists" during New Times' previous residency in the city, says: "They were not just a gadfly, they were an assault vehicle." Martelle also speaks to a few current L.A. Weekly staff members, including editor Laurie Ochoa, and addresses speculation that Phoenix New Times editor Rick Barrs will replace her. (Barrs says that he hasn't been asked, but adds that he would "have mixed emotions about it.")
Los Angeles Times |
12-14-2005 8:21 am |
Industry News
State Attorneys Could Still Create Merger Roadblocknew
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
12-14-2005 9:34 pm |
Industry News
LA Magazine Discusses Merger and Future of Alt-Weekliesnew
Los Angeles Magazine Online |
12-06-2005 7:44 am |
Industry News
LA Weekly Explains Merger, Interviews Laceynew
LA Weekly |
12-01-2005 6:19 am |
Industry News
SF Bay Guardian on 'The Final Merger Battle'new
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
11-30-2005 6:19 am |
Industry News
FTC Won't Block New Times-Village Voice Mergernew
Seattle Weekly reported Monday that the federal government will not intervene in the merger of its parent company, Village Voice Media, and New Times Media, LLC. The Federal Trade Commission posted a routine notice last Wednesday listing the merger among proposed deals that neither the FTC's Bureau of Competition nor the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice would challenge. Thus, the Weekly said, the way is clear "for the two companies to become one as soon as paperwork is complete." The Weekly also quoted an e-mail message to staff from Village Voice Media CEO David Schneiderman, in which he said, "the work on integrating the two companies will accelerate, but we will still be functioning as separate entities until the closing." The Village Voice ran its own story later in the day.
Seattle Weekly |
11-28-2005 12:11 pm |
Industry News
Village Voice's Schanberg Says New York Magazine "Chose to Omit" the Truthnew
Village Voice (2nd item) |
11-15-2005 2:00 pm |
Industry News
New Information in Sexual Harassment Suit Against the Village Voice
TheSmokingGun.com has posted the July 15 letter that former Voice writer Richard Goldstein received from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in response to his discrimination complaint. In stiff language, the letter provides some details of the Village Voice Media's defense against the charges of sexual harassment and age discrimination before stating that the EEOC was "unable to conclude that the information establishes violations of statutes." The letter also warns Goldstein that he "may only pursue this matter by filing suite (sic)" within 90 days, which he did on Oct. 12. The 14-page complaint that Goldstein filed in court is also posted on the Smoking Gun Web site.
11-14-2005 3:10 pm |
Industry News
Print Papers Bet on Free Online Classifiedsnew
Media Daily News (reg. req.) |
11-14-2005 8:16 am |
Industry News
