Village Voice

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Village Voice

"When it was founded by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer in October of 1955, the Village Voice introduced free-form, high-spirited and passionate journalism into the public discourse. As the nation's first and largest alternative newsweekly, the Voice maintains the same tradition of no-holds-barred reporting and criticism it first embraced when it began publishing fifty years ago.

"The recipient of three Pulitzer prizes, the National Press Foundation Award and the George Polk Award, the Voice has earned a reputation for its groundbreaking investigations of New York City politics, and as the premier expert on New York's cultural scene." [1]

According to Bob Feldman, "In February 1976, then-Voice editor Tom Morgan chose to publish a previously-classified copy of a House Committee Report On The CIA—the Pike Report—which had been leaked to the Voice by then-CBS News correspondent Daniel Schorr (who later in the 20th century became a reporter for NPR). But then-U.S. Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller’s son-in-law, Morgan, shortly afterwards decided to resign as Voice editor in September 1976. So Felker next brought in a then-Rolling Stone magazine editor from the outside, Marianne Partridge, to manage his stable of Voice writers." [2]

Editorial Staff

Accessed November 2008: [3]

Contact

Web: http://www.villagevoice.com

Resources and articles

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References

  1. About, Village Voice, accessed November 11, 2008.
  2. The `Village Voice' Alternative Media Monopoly's Hidden History--Part 11, Bob Feldman Blog, accessed November 11, 2008.
  3. Staff, Village Voice, accessed November 11, 2008.