Village Voice Media is a privately held corporation that owns the Village Voice, the nation's oldest (founded in 1955) and largest alternative weekly newspaper, as well as LA Weekly, OC Weekly in Orange County, California, Seattle Weekly, City Pages in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Nashville Scene, Cleveland Scene, Dallas Observer, Westword in Denver, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Houston Press, The Pitch in Kansas City, Miami New Times, Phoenix New Times, SF Weekly in San Francisco, Riverfront Times in St. Louis, and backpage. This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. An alternative newspaper is a type of Newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated Reviews and columns LA Weekly is a free weekly Tabloid -sized Newspaper (a so-called " Alternative weekly " in Los Angeles California OC Weekly, a sister publication of both LA Weekly and The Village Voice, is a free weekly paper (an Alternative weekly Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. Seattle Weekly is a freely distributed Newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. City Pages is an Alternative weekly Newspaper serving the Minneapolis-St Nashville Scene is an Alternative newsweekly in Nashville Tennessee. The Cleveland Scene is an Alternative weekly newspaper from Cleveland, Ohio The Dallas Observer is a free Alternative weekly Newspaper distributed around the Dallas, Texas ( USA) area with a Westword is a free Alternative weekly Newspaper based in Denver Colorado. The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States Broward County is a County located in the US state of Florida. Palm Beach is an upscale Incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The Houston Press is an Alternative weekly Newspaper published in Houston Texas. The Pitch is a free Alternative weekly Newspaper distributed in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, including Lawrence and Kansas City Missouri only Items for the metro area Kansas City Kansas or North Kansas City MO should go on their respective pages The Miami New Times is a free weekly Miami Florida newspaper put out every Thursday The Phoenix New Times is a free weekly Phoenix Arizona newspaper put out every Thursday The SF Weekly is a free Alternative weekly Newspaper in San Francisco California. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city The Riverfront Times (also known as the RFT) is an Alternative newsweekly in St com an online classified advertising website.
In 2002, the previous Village Voice Media entered into a noncompetition agreement with New Times Media, another national publisher of alternative weeklies, whereby the two companies agreed to stop publishing New Times LA (a product of New Times Media) and Cleveland Free Times (a product of Village Voice Media), so that the companies would not publish two, competing newspapers in any single city. The New Times Media corporation was a national publisher of Alternative weekly newspapers An alternative newspaper is a type of Newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated Reviews and columns The Free Times was an Alternative weekly Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. This agreement and phasing out of the two newspapers, led to an antitrust investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. For animal rights group see Justice Department (JD The United States Department of Justice ( DOJ) is a Cabinet department The investigation resulted in a settlement, requiring the companies to sell off assets and the old newspapers' titles to any potential competitors. [1]
On October 24, 2005, New Times Media announced a deal to acquire Village Voice Media (which, at the date of sale, owned the first 7 papers mentioned in the first paragraph), creating a chain of 17 free weekly newspapers around the country with a combined circulation of 1. 8 million and controlling a quarter of the weekly circulation of alternative weekly newspapers in North America. After the deal's completion, New Times took the Village Voice Media name.
In October of 2007, Michael Lacey, the executive editor, and Jim Larkin, chief executive, of Village Voice Media, were arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, on charges that a Village Voice Media pulbication, the Phoenix New Times, had published secret grand jury information. Phoenix (ˈfiːˌnɪks O'odham Skikik, Yavapai Wasinka, Western Apache Fiinigis, Navajo Hoozdo, The Phoenix New Times is a free weekly Phoenix Arizona newspaper put out every Thursday In the Common law, a grand jury is a type of Jury which determines whether there is enough evidence for a trial. A state special prosecutor is investigating the newspaper's long-running feud with Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, including the publishing of Arpaio's home address, a crime under Arizona law. A special prosecutor generally is a Lawyer from outside the Government appointed by an Attorney general or Congress to investigate a government Maricopa County (ˌmɛɹɨˈkoʊ̪pə is located in the central part of the U SHERIFF is a telecom fraud detection and management system originally developed by BT and MCI. Joseph M Arpaio (born June 14, 1932 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States) is a law enforcement officer and the Sheriff The State of Arizona ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. The special prosecutor's subpoena included a demand for the names of the readers of the New Times's website. A subpoena (səˈpiːnə is commonly defined as a written command to a person to Testify before a Court or be punished It was the information about the subpoena which was deemed by prosecutors to be secret grand jury information. [2]
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- ^ Savannah Blackwell, "New Times nailed", sfbg. Village Voice Media is the holding company which owns The Village Voice as well as some other alternative weeklies in the U com, January 29, 2003.
- ^ David Carr, "Media Executives Arrested in Phoenix", The New York Times, October 19, 2007.
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