Barbey said closing the Voice as a print publication did not mean he had abandoned the pioneering weekly. “It was that the Village Voice was alive and that it changed in step with and reflected the times and the ever-evolving world around it. “I want the Village Voice brand to represent that for a new generation of people – and for generations to come.”A member of a newspaper-owning family from Pennsylvania, Barbey bought the Voice in 2015. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Village Voice website, on Tuesday. Photograph: VillageVoice.comBut the model Barbey sought proved elusive, and the decision to shutter the print edition of the Voice, which first appeared in 1955, represents a clear setback for US print journalism.

Source: The Guardian August 22, 2017 19:07 UTC