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September 4, 2018

Award-Winning Alternative Weekly The Village Voice Shuts Down After 63 Years
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In New York City, the award-winning newspaper The Village Voice is
shutting down after 63 years. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher
and Norman Mailer, the left-leaning paper was the first alternative
weekly in the United States. Last year it stopped its print publication,
and on Friday publisher Peter Barbey said he was shutting down the
influential newspaper entirely.


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