The next Village Council meeting is on 4/14, the day before Good Friday, expect traffic pattern changes/road closures near Lighthouse Wynd on Easter Sunday for services at the Village Chapel.Spring cleaning? Make sure you know the recent changes with bulk item pick-up and donations.Scam Alert! Callers are pretending to be Duke Energy.Including updates on several items such as landscape design services, IPC/PO, the south beach artifact, wind energy, funding opportunities, cybersecurity, and the ADA beach access. A recap of the Village Council regular meeting.Barbey planned to donate The Voice’s print archives to a “major New York public institution” in the coming months. Some staff members stayed on to work on building a digital archive. Since The Voice stopped publishing new content in September 2018, the website has been periodically updated with articles pulled from its archives. He said he also envisioned The Voice performing a critical role of alt-weeklies: acting as a watchdog of mainstream media outlets. Calle said he planned to start a Voice podcast and increase the publication’s social media presence while looking for new revenue streams. He added that the paper he acquired on Tuesday “will honor the traditions of The Village Voice of yesteryear.” Speaking more generally of the detractors of LA Weekly under his leadership, he said, “I think the proof is in the results, which is that we’re still around and we’re on a nice trajectory.” “That lawsuit was settled and we both went our separate ways,” Mr. Calle and the other LA Weekly backers, alleging that they had mismanaged the paper. In 2018, David Welch, one of the investors, sued Mr. “It was not the same quality publication after he purchased it as it was before.” “I think my opinion is shared by the community of readers in Los Angeles,” she said. Shalhoup, who next week will start as ProPublica’s South editor, said she felt LA Weekly was not as focused on serious journalism after the acquisition by Mr. Calle bought it, said that nearly the entire newsroom staff was fired. Mara Shalhoup, the editor in chief of LA Weekly when Mr. LA Weekly’s newsroom was quickly gutted after the sale, and former writers organized a boycott of the paper, pressing advertisers and other journalists to cut ties. (From 2012 to 2017, the Voice Media Group owned LA Weekly in addition to its flagship paper in New York.) Calle bought LA Weekly with a group of investors in 2017 from the Voice Media Group. Formerly an opinion editor for The Orange County Register in California and other newspapers, Mr. Calle has experience running an alt-weekly, but his time as publisher and chief executive at LA Weekly has not been without incident. In a news release, Street Media said the acquisition did not include the Obie Awards, the Off Broadway honors that will continue to be presented by the American Theater Wing. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We had roughly half a dozen calls, just talking about the history of The Voice and getting to know each other, because he views himself as a kind of a steward and was just waiting for someone to come along.” “I literally just cold-called him and I said, ‘Hey, I’ve been thinking a lot about The Village Voice and a lot about journalism in the context of this year and I feel like we need to figure out a way to bring it back,’” he said. Barbey about buying the paper in recent months. Calle said he had eyed The Voice for several years and got in touch with Mr. He vowed to revitalize the paper, but in August 2017 he took it digital only and shuttered it a year later. Barbey, an heir to an American retail empire whose family owned The Reading Eagle newspaper in Pennsylvania for generations until 2019. In 2015 it was sold by the Voice Media Group to Mr. The paper grew thinner over the years, as Craigslist cut into its revenue, and bloggers and early digital sites chipped away at its cultural position. Generations of New Yorkers found their first apartments through its seemingly endless classified section. Gary Lineker: The BBC reached an agreement with its most visible sports broadcaster that will put him back on the air, defusing a crisis at the public broadcaster that began with a politically charged tweet.Lifehacker: The online how-to guide for exercise, cooking, technology and parenting is being sold to the digital-media giant Ziff Davis, in a move that emphasizes the financial appeal of so-called service journalism publications.CNN’s Experiment: An attempt to revive the network’s flagging prime-time ratings with a mix of exclusive interviews and specials dedicated to hot-button topics is off to a slow start.And the biggest draw on Fox News is a 5 p.m. The New Prime Time: Daytime shows on CNN and MSNBC are outranking evening programming.
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