Village Voice newspaper to be resurrected underneath possession of Southern California expense group
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The Village Voice will be read again.
The iconic New York alternative weekly, which closed in 2018 after extra than 50 % a century of chronicling the city’s cultural daily life, will return early upcoming yr with a new operator.
From the archives (August 2018): Famed New York different weekly Village Voice heads towards shutdown
Avenue Media, a California expenditure team that owns LA Weekly, has obtained the Voice from Peter Barbey, an heir to the fortune powering manner brand names North Face and Timberland, who acquired the publication in 2015 but closed it just 3 decades later on. The price was not disclosed.
Brian Calle, the main government of Avenue Media and publisher of LA Weekly and its sister paper, Irvine Weekly, reported he intends to start out publishing new material on the Village Voice web site in January and will provide it back to print as a quarterly starting at the conclusion of March. Its print frequency may well boost over time, he said.
“This is some thing that is so significant traditionally, and I believe it is anything that is likely to be desired when New York begins to absolutely reopen subsequent year,” Calle claimed in an job interview.
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