![]() "Ad revenue was decimated - they literally could not afford to keep that many people on staff," Mark Schoofs, who snagged the Voice a Pulitzer during his near-decade as a staff writer in the '90s, said by phone Tuesday. "It's amazing how many great journalists still got their start at the Voice, even as it lost its ad revenue," Schoofs said. "But you need money to do journalism." The Village Voice was exposing Donald Trump when no one else was paying attention. John Nichols AugSomewhere this is happening. When legendary city reporter Wayne Barrett was laid off in 2011 - and the great Tom Robbins quit in solidarity - the paper "lost Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle," lamented Don Forst, editor of the Voice from 1996 to 2005. At Robbins' office send-off party, he famously told remaining staff: "Newspapers will break your heart." "It was a great institution for what it was," he said. After another set of brutal layoffs in 2013 that included gay nightlife guru Michael Musto, arguably the paper's last big name-in-lights, Baron, now at GQ, wrote: Hoberman was cut in another round of layoffs, he said: "It's safe to say that I'll never love an institution as much as I first loved the Voice - because there is unlikely to ever be an institution like that Voice again, unfortunately." With that, Rosie Gray, a former news blogger now at BuzzFeed, declared: "The Voice, dying for so long, seems finally on the verge of actual collapse."īut there would be more carnage yet. My Voice died in 2006, before I even really started working there. Someone else's Voice died when I left, or when Camille Dodero left, or Rob Harvilla, or Allison Benedikt - it is always someone's golden age there, even now, with the staff down to 15 or so people. ![]()
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