He said he still felt the freedom he knew from the days when he was starting out. “Each writer was given their beat and allowed to run with it and inject their personal style in every syllable,” he said. Musto said The Voice was unique in the latitude it allowed its writers.
For years, the weekly’s pages also included advertising for phone-sex and escort services, a practice that came to an end under Mr. DeMause, who wrote for the paper for 20 years before becoming one of its top editors two years ago, said, “I’m deeply saddened as a consumer of media and a little bit scared as a New Yorker and an American that we are losing all these journalism outlets at a time when we need them more than ever.”īefore Craigslist and other online services shoved printed classified ads into irrelevance, The Voice was thick with apartment listings that helped fund the work of its argumentative reporters and editors. Barbey’s announcement, but were “prepared for the worst” after his decision to eliminate the print publication. The film critic Bilge Ebiri said that Voice staff members were not anticipating Mr. On Friday, it broke the news of The Voice’s closing. Gothamist has since re-emerged under new ownership. DNAinfo and Gothamist, two news sites in New York, were shut down last year by their owner, Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of TD Ameritrade.
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“While this is not the outcome I’d hoped for and worked towards, a fully digitized Voice archive will offer coming generations a chance to experience for themselves what is clearly one of this city’s and this country’s social and cultural treasures.” “I began my involvement with The Voice intending to ensure its future,” Mr. On Friday he became the media mogul who was shutting it down. He first read The Voice as a boarding school student in Massachusetts and was drawn to its coverage of the mid-1970s New York rock scene and the film criticism of Andrew Sarris. Barbey has been its chief executive since 2011. For generations the family has also owned The Reading Eagle, a Pennsylvania daily newspaper. With a net worth estimated at more than $6 billion by Forbes, the Barbey family has a stake in brands like North Face, Wrangler and Timberland. Barbey is an heir to a Pennsylvania retail fortune. “So the good news is that you have the honor of having written the last news article ever for The Village Voice,” Mr.
Wishnia received a link to his article along with a note from his editor, Neil DeMause. Steven Wishnia, who has freelanced for The Voice on and off since 1994, said he stayed up until midnight on Thursday, putting the final touches on an article about the return of residents to their building on the Bowery after they were ordered to vacate it because of safety hazards.
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