The Village Voice will be heard again.
The iconic New York alternative weekly, which closed in 2018 after more than half a century of chronicling the city’s cultural life, will return early next year with a new owner.
From the archives (August 2018): Famed New York alternative weekly Village Voice heads toward shutdown
Street Media, a California investment group that owns LA Weekly, has acquired the Voice from Peter Barbey, an heir to the fortune behind fashion brands North Face and Timberland, who bought the publication in 2015 but closed it just three years later. The price wasn’t disclosed.
Brian Calle, the chief executive of Street Media and publisher of LA Weekly and its sister paper, Irvine Weekly, said he intends to begin publishing new content on the Village Voice website in January and will bring it back to print as a quarterly starting at the end of March. Its print frequency might increase over time, he said.
“This is something that is so important historically, and I believe it is something that is going to be needed when New York begins to fully reopen next year,” Calle said in an interview.
An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.
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