Executive editor Tim Redmond says his paper has obtained documents that "include a May 27, 2005, draft of a merger agreement between Village Voice Media and New Times." According to Redmond, "the draft calls for the creation of a new company controlled by a nine-member board," with New Times owning 62 percent of the new venture and controlling five board seats, and VVM retaining the rest. New Times owns 11 AAN papers and VVM owns six.
In this week's issue, new editor-in-chief Harry Siegel and senior editor Jonathan Leaf say that the "part of New York that belongs to those who make it their home, rather than those who are passing through, is slowly dying" and call the city "an anachronism" in a time that "technology allows financiers, diplomats and scholars to do their work just as well from Jersey City, Chicago, or Omaha as from Midtown." With those things in mind, they lay out what will be their paper's guiding principles: openness, expansiveness and the idea that "a newspaper must serve an ideal of justice."
After 18 years at the alt-weekly, Jim Mullin (pictured) will step down from his position. The announcement comes less than a month after former city official Arthur Teele's suicide, which came on the heels of a New Times cover story about Teele's involvement with a transvestite prostitute. Mullin says that while he was "profoundly affected" by the tragedy, he'd been considering leaving the paper for the past year. His successor will be Chuck Strouse, the current editor of New Times Broward-Palm Beach.
Construction of a light rail in downtown Phoenix, where the event has taken place for the past 29 years, forced the move. This year's race -- expected to attract about 10,000 participants -- will be run through Tempe, where the alt-weekly chain has held its annual Music Showcase for the past decade.
That's what new editor Harry Siegel (pictured) tells The New York Sun. Siegel, founder of the cultural and political blog New Partisan, says that under his direction the Press will appeal to readers who "are interested in argument and reason" by giving them "a more credible, serious, and ideologically open alternative to the [Village] Voice." The first issue under his editorship will hit the streets on August 24.
Susy Buchanan wrote a piece about quad rugby for the Arizona alt-weekly that caught the eye of Dana Alan Shapiro, Murderball's co-director. Shapiro, at the time a senior editor for Spin, then pitched Maxim on an article that would help launch his film. Click here to read the Austin Chronicle article detailing the process behind the film's success, from securing financing to finding a distributor.
Matt Taibbi plugged his new-ish book, "Spanking the Donkey," and spoke to Jon Stewart about covering the presidential race in a gorilla suit, working for the Bush campaign and the ways in which the press corps is like a bunch of high-school kids. Click here to go to Comedy Central's online video library and scroll down to find Taibbi's interview.
Chris Rohland resigned yesterday as president and publisher of New York Press, effective May 27. Rohland says he's leaving to "concentrate (his) energies to other projects, including the development of a sales training program" for other publications. He also says that Avalon Equity, the owners of the Press, are not presently seeking to replace him, and that "members of the Avalon team will be overseeing operations until a decision on the publisher position has been made."
Blood. Frogs. Vermin. Hail. Locusts. Slaying of your first editor. Whatever. If you publish a paper long enough, sooner or later you will be hit with a disaster. With eleven papers to worry about, the folks at New Times are always thinking about these things, and they have agreed to share their disaster-recovery plans with business-stream attendees on Saturday, June 18 at 4:45 pm.
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