The Village Voice has been shut down

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Vox
By Alissa Wilkinson
Aug 31, 2018

For 63 years, New York’s most venerated alt-weekly, the Village Voice, has been an institution — not just for the city but for several generations of writers and critics whose careers were launched or inspired by the groundbreaking writing on art and popular culture found in its pages.

Now it’s gone.

On the Friday before Labor Day, Village Voice staffers found out the paper was being shut down. According to Gothamist, the paper’s owner, Peter Barbey, told the staff in a phone call that “due to the business realities, we’re going to stop publishing Village Voice new material.” Some staff members are being retained to “wind things down” and migrate the Voice’s archive online. The rest have been let go.

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https://www.vox.com/2018/8/31/17805964/village-voice-shut-down-closed

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Wow!!

[Wingnut]

That fish wrapper died in April of 2017 when it stopped their print edition.  suprised it took this long for them to pull the plug on the life support

[dfwgator]

They won't be missed.

[jmyrlefuller]

That fish wrapper died in April of 2017 when it stopped their print edition.  suprised it took this long for them to pull the plug on the life support

Going online-only rarely ever works. Online-only publications tend to have to be established as online-only operations and build their brands accordingly. You can't just plop a newspaper brand on a Web site and expect success. If anything, it gives the impression of being a failed enterprise clinging to life.

[Hoodat]

That fish wrapper died in April of 2017 when it stopped their print edition.  suprised it took this long for them to pull the plug on the life support

There is still nothing like holding a print newspaper in you hands and reading through it.

[endicom]

They won't be missed.

The sui generis Nat Hentoff was okay:

Political views, commentary, and activism

Hentoff espoused generally liberal views on domestic policy and civil liberties, but in the 1980s, he began articulating more socially conservative positions. He was opposed to abortion, voluntary euthanasia, and the selective medical treatment of severely disabled infants.[27] He believed that a consistent life ethic should be the viewpoint of a genuine civil libertarian, arguing that all human rights are at risk when the rights of one group of people are diminished, that human rights are interconnected, and that people deny others' human rights at their peril.[27]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Hentoff

[Wingnut]

Going online-only rarely ever works. Online-only publications tend to have to be established as online-only operations and build their brands accordingly. You can't just plop a newspaper brand on a Web site and expect success. If anything, it gives the impression of being a failed enterprise clinging to life.

Whole heartedly agree with that statement.

[catfish1957]

There is still nothing like holding a print newspaper in you hands and reading through it.

Agree.  But I wonder for how long.   Notice it is getting increasingly hard to find a paper now days.

[Applewood]

I feel sorry for people like my 86-year-old aunt.  No computer or other electronic device -- just a basic cell phone.  When our local paper completes its transition to online only, she and others will be lost. 

I still buy the print version, but only on Sunday and only for the coupons and the comics.  But lately, the comics are crappy(Doonesbury, for example) and most of the coupons are for things I don't want or use.  I won't miss the paper nearly as much as my aunt.