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Alternative newspapers to merge
San Francisco Chronicle: Times Media, the Phoenix company that owns the SF Weekly, is acquiring Village Voice Media of New York, one of the country's oldest publishers of alternative newspapers. The company will have revenue of $180 million, and with a combined circulation of 1.8 million, it will account for nearly a quarter of the alternative newsweekly industry's total circulation of 7.6 million.
October 25, 2005 at 12:04 PM in Media | Permalink
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It's probably not the fate Norman Mailer had in mind when he co-founded the Voice in 1955. [Read More]
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Positively frightening. There is no other media company with outlets in New York City, DC, LA, San Francisco, Houston, Miami and Seattle -- not to mention the six other large markets these folks are in.
Posted by: Josh at Oct 26, 2005 1:04:30 PM
