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| Type | Alternative weekly |
| Format | Tabloid |
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| Owner | Manhattan Media |
| Publisher | Nick Thomas |
| Editor-in-Chief | David Blum |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | 79 Madison Ave. Events 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. An alternative newspaper is a type of Newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated Reviews and columns A tabloid is a Newspaper industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest David Blum is editor-in-chief of 02138 Magazine and editorial director of its owner Manhattan Media Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) , 16th Floor New York, NY 10016  United States |
| Circulation | 105,005[1] |
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| Website: nypress.com | |
New York Press is a free alternative weekly in New York City. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This is a list of the daily Newspapers in the World by average circulation An alternative newspaper is a type of Newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated Reviews and columns The City of New York It is the main competitor to the Village Voice. This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. It was founded in 1988, and originally conceived and published as a conservative voice in traditionally liberal New York. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) The paper developed an impressive following over its first decade, and by 1996 had forced the Village Voice to become a free paper to compete. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar)
The rivalry with the Village Voice has expressed itself in other ways. Emulating New York Press's own popular "Best of Manhattan" annual feature, the Village Voice later began publishing its own annual "Best of New York" issue. Press editors have written about hiring away writer Nat Hentoff from the Voice. Nat Hentoff (born June 10, 1925) is an American Historian, Novelist, Jazz Critic, and Columnist for [2] Liz Trotta of The Washington Post compared the rivalry to a similar sniping between certain publications in the eighteenth-century British press, such as the Analytical Review and its self-styled nemesis the Anti-Jacobin Review. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D The Analytical Review was a periodical established in The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine or Monthly Political and Literary Censor (1798 to 1821 a conservative British political periodical was founded by John Gifford [3]
The paper's weekly circulation in 2006 was around 110,000,[4] in comparison with around 250,000 for the Village Voice. [5] The Press touts a Manhattan focussed, controlled distribution system while a good portion of the Village Voice's circulation is outside of the NYC metro area.
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An independent weekly, 1988-2002
The paper was founded by Russ Smith, who published it until he sold it in late 2002. Russ Smith (b 1955 in Huntington New York) is a Newspaper Publisher and Columnist best known for founding the Baltimore City Paper See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Although Smith was nominally editor-in-chief, the actual editor throughout this period was John Strausbaugh. John Strausbaugh (born in Baltimore in 1951 is an American author cultural commentator and host of the New York Times "Weekend Explorer" video podcast Smith wrote a column starting with the first issue, which was published under the pseudonym "MUGGER"; it mostly focused on media coverage of politics, as well as restaurant reviews and personal anecdotes. Smith still contributes this column, which is now simply called "Mugger" and published under his real name.
Under Smith, the often voluminous paper was a money-losing operation, rumored to function as a tax shelter for Smith's wealthy family.
During Strausbaugh's editorship, the Press ran regular columns by the radical Alexander Cockburn, the patrician Taki Theodoracopolous, the future Weekly Standard editor Christopher Caldwell, Soul Coughing lead singer M. Doughty (both under his own name and under the pseudonym "Dirty Sanchez"), Adam Mazmanian, Todd Seavey, Paul Lukas, Alan Cabal, and Daniel Radosh. Alexander Claud Cockburn (ˈkoʊbɚn koh-burn born 6 June 1941 is an Irish-American political Journalist. Taki Theodoracopulos (Τάκης Θεοδωρακόπουλος born August 11 1937) originally named Petros (Peter Theodoracopulos but better known as Taki Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, as well as a regular contributor to the Financial Times and Slate Soul Coughing was a New York -based Alternative rock band active in the 1990s Mike Doughty (born June 10 1970) is an American singer and songwriter Dirty Sanchez is smearing fecal matter under the nose of one's partner in the shape of a Mustache, during (or following various types of Anal sex Daniel Radosh (born 23 March 1969) is an American journalist and Blogger He is a contributing editor at The Week and writes Many New York Press writers and editorial staff from this time have gone on to achieve some renown. Examples include the author and screenwriter William Monahan, author Dave Eggers, future Weekly Standard and Humanities magazine editor David Skinner, author and raconteur Toby Young, New York magazine contributing editor and author Amy Sohn, author Jonathan Ames, faux-memoirist "JT LeRoy", American Conservative magazine editor Scott McConnell, writer Kevin R. William Monahan (ˈwɪljəm ˈmɒnəhæn (born November 3 1960 is an Academy Award -winning American Screenwriter, Literary novelist and former Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American Writer, editor, and publisher. David Skinner is the name of David Skinner (journalist, a journalist and editor at The Weekly Standard David Skinner (author Toby Daniel Moorsom Young (born 1963 is a British Journalist and the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his Amy Sohn (born 1973) is a Brooklyn -based Author, Columnist and Screenwriter. Jonathan Ames is an American Author who has written a number of Novels and comic Memoirs. Jeremiah "Terminator" LeRoy was a Pen name of American Writer Laura Albert. Scott McConnell (born 1952 is an American Journalist best known as the current editor of The American Conservative. Kosar, future New York Times editor Sam Sifton, and Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief and novelist David Corn, among others. Sam Sifton (born June 5, 1966) is an American journalist who has been the cultural news editor of The New York Times since May 2005 David Corn is a Liberal American political journalist and author
In the tradition of earlier NY underground papers like East Village Other, New York Press also regularly published cutting-edge comic art, including early work by founding art director Michael Gentile, Kaz, Ben Katchor, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Mark Newgarden, Ward Sutton, M. Wartella, Gary Panter, Danny Hellman, Tony Millionaire and others. The East Village Other (often abbreviated as EVO) was a leading underground newspaper in New York City during the late 1960s Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn NY) is an American Cartoonist. Charles Burns may refer to Charles Burns (cartoonist, cartoonist/illustrator Montgomery Burns, full name Charles Montgomery Burns fictional Mark Beyer (born 1950 is a comic artist known for his bleak story lines often featuring death disfigurement depression and humiliation which contrast with his childlike geometric Mark Newgarden is an American underground Cartoonist born in Brooklyn in 1959 Ward Sutton is an American illustrator cartoonist and writer born in Minneapolis and based in New York City. Michael M Wartella is an American underground Cartoonist. His absurdist early "art comic" Ackxhpæz (1994-1996 was well-received and led to Gary Panter (born December 1 1950 in Durant Oklahoma) is an illustrator painter designer and part-time musician Danny Hellman (born August 2, 1964) is a Freelance Illustrator and Cartoonist nicknamed Dirty Danny. Tony Millionaire (born Scott Richardson, 1956 is an American Cartoonist, Illustrator and Author known for his syndicated
Post-acquisition, 2003-present
| "There’s NYP 1988-2002, and then there’s whatever it’s been since. And that’s not just me gassing about the good old days. [. . . ] [T]he pretense that there’s an unbroken timeline connecting the original New York Press to the current version is misleading and disingenuous at best. " John Strausbaugh, a week after the 20th anniversary issue, in April 2008. John Strausbaugh (born in Baltimore in 1951 is an American author cultural commentator and host of the New York Times "Weekend Explorer" video podcast [6] |
Smith sold the paper in late 2002 to investment group Avalon Equity Partners for around US$3 million. Avalon Equity Partners is a New York New York -based investment group that manages the $63 million private Avalon Equity Fund [7] Publishers Chuck Colletti and Doug Meadow became the president and C. O. O. , respectively. Immediately after the sale, Strausbaugh was fired and replaced by former production editor Jeff Koyen. Writer Jeff Koyen was born in 1969 in suburban New Jersey. He has lived in Philadelphia, New York City, and Prague. The paper began to run significantly less pages than it did beforehand, in an attempt to cut down on costs (it is rumored to finally be breaking even).
From April 2003 to July 2004, the Press had a sister publication, New York Sports Express, that was a free weekly devoted to sports. The New York Sports Express, sometimes abbreviated NYSX, was a free publication distributed from April 2003 to July 2004 as a sister paper to the The publishers discontinued it due to insufficient circulation.
New York Press earned reprobation in March 2005 for a cover story entitled "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope," written by Matt Taibbi. Matthew C Taibbi (born February 3 1970 is an American Journalist and political writer [8] The cover prompted outraged comments from a variety of New York politicians,[9] and within a few weeks led to the resignation of its then-editor, Jeff Koyen. He was replaced by "interim editor" Alexander Zaitchik.
During Koyen's and Zaitchik's editorship, the paper ran regular columns by Paul Krassner, Michelangelo Signorile, and Matt Taibbi, and regularly featured writing by gadfly Christopher X. Brodeur, among others. Paul Krassner (born April 9, 1932) was the founder editor and a frequent contributor to the Freethought magazine The Realist, first Michelangelo Signorile, pronounced (ˌsiːnjəˈɹɪlə born December 19, 1960) is a Gay American Writer and a national Talk Matthew C Taibbi (born February 3 1970 is an American Journalist and political writer Christopher X Brodeur is a journalist musician artist cartoonist political gadfly and two-time Write-in candidate for the Mayor of New York City. Many of the writers from this time period, including Zaitchik himself, went on to work at The eXile. The eXile was a Moscow -based English-language biweekly free Newspaper, aimed at the city's Expatriate community which combined
Harry Siegel became the paper's editor in August 2005, bringing along with him three editors and writers (Tim Marchman, Jonathan Leaf and Azi Paybarah), and giving the Press a greater focus on local politics. Harry Siegel, born in 1977 is a conservative journalist and editor based out of Brooklyn New York Tim Marchman is a baseball columnist who most recently wrote for the now-defunct New York Sun newspaper Jonathan Leaf is a Playwright and Journalist based out of New York City. Azi Paybarah is a New York-based journalist who focuses primarily on local politics In February 2006 all four resigned from the paper, after the publisher rejected a planned cover story that would have shown the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons. [10] Siegel was replaced for a short time by Steve Weinstein, former editor of the New York Blade. The New York Blade is a weekly Lesbian, Gay, bisexual and Transgender ( LGBT) newspaper in New York City New York In 2006, Adario Strange, former editor of The Source, became the new editor. Adario Strange is a New York based Film director, Writer and Artist. The Source is a United States -based monthly full-color Magazine covering Hip-hop music, Politics, and culture, founded in A year later, in 2007, Strange left the paper to return to film directing. Upon his promotion to publisher, Nick Thomas named former arts and entertainment editor Jerry Portwood to editor of the publication.
On July 31, 2007, the paper was acquired by Manhattan Media, the owner of Avenue Magazine and a small stable of New York community weekly newspapers. One of those weeklies, “Our Town Downtown,” will be merged with the New York Press.
In September, 2007, David Blum was named editor-in-chief of the New York Press. David Blum is editor-in-chief of 02138 Magazine and editorial director of its owner Manhattan Media A former contributing editor of New York Magazine and Esquire, Blum had previously been editor-in-chief of The Village Voice.
Currently the Press runs regular columns by Amy Goodman and Ed Koch (former Mayor of New York City), among others. Amy Goodman (born April 13 1957 in Bay Shore / New York) is an American broadcast journalist, Syndicated columnist and Author Edward Irving Koch (born December 12, 1924;) was a United States Congressman from 1969 to 1977 and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989 The Mayor of New York City is the head of the executive branch of the Government of New York City.
Other noted contributors
Noted memoirist and longtime staff writer, occasional arts and entertainment critic, and author of the nearly two decade old "Slackjaw" column, Jim Knipfel was one of the paper's only mainstays for more than thirteen years. Jim Knipfel (pronounced Kah-nipfel (born June 2, 1965) is an American Novelist, autobiographer and Journalist. "Slackjaw" ran in the Philadelphia Welcomat for five years before it was picked up by the Press in 1993. Later, Knipfel worked as the Press' receptionist before moving into a staff writer position. In June, 2006, his column was discontinued. Film critic Armond White is another of the paper's mainstays. Armond White (born in Detroit Michigan) is an American Film critic.
See also
References
- ^ New York Press. The media of New York City are internationally influential and include some of the most important newspapers largest publishing houses most prolific television studios and The eXile was a Moscow -based English-language biweekly free Newspaper, aimed at the city's Expatriate community which combined Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN is the trade association of Alternative weekly newspapers in North America. Retrieved on 2007-02-08. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 421 - Constantius III becomes co- Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- ^ http://www.nypress.com/18/52/news&columns/NewYearGuide.cfm
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_15_15/ai_54451088
- ^ http://aan.org/gyrobase/Aan/viewCompany?oid=oid%3A60
- ^ http://aan.org/gyrobase/Aan/ViewCompany?oid=oid%3A94
- ^ http://nypress.com/21/18/news&columns/mailbox.cfm
- ^ http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0303,cotts,41193,6.html
- ^ http://nypress.com/18/9/news&columns/taibbi.cfm
- ^ http://www.nydailynews.com/03-04-2005/front/story/286529p-245325c.html
- ^ http://thepoliticker.observer.com/2006/02/ny-press-kills-cartoons-staff-walks-out.html
External links
- The New York Press website
- Example of a New York press article
- Russ Smith's Retrospective on the Early Days of the New York Press
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