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| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Publishing |
| Genre | Holding Company |
| Founded | as New Times Inc. 1970 |
| Products | Formerly published alternative newspapers and websites. As of December 2014, it had divested itself of all of these properties |
Coordinates: 40°43′42″N 73°59′28″W / 40.7283°N 73.9911°W
Village Voice Media or "VVM" began in 1970 as a weekly alternative newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona. The company, founded by Michael Lacey (editor) and Jim Larkin (publisher) was then known as New Times Inc. and the publication was named New Times. The company was later renamed New Times Media.
By 2001 the company (NTI) had grown to 13 newspapers in major cities across the United States. Most of these publications were acquired via purchase from then current owner/publishers.
In 2006, with the acquisition of the Village Voice group of publications, the company took the name Village Voice Media Holdings. The company is often referred to in this article as NTI/VVM after that date.
Alternative newspapers trace their beginnings to 1955 and the founding of the Village Voice in New York City. Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer together chipped in $10,000 to start the paper. It soon became a unique focal point for a variety of viewpoints and intellectual positions in New York City and beyond.
However, in the late 1960s a new type of journalistic enterprise began to sprout in the United States and elsewhere: the underground newspaper. Fueled by the growth of the anti-war movement, radical politics, the African-American Civil Rights Movement and the counterculture of the 1960s, these publications appeared in virtually every city and large town (especially college towns) in the United States. At one point Newsweek estimated there were more than 500 underground papers with a distribution of between 2 million and 4.5 million copies. Among the most prominent were the Berkeley Barb, the LA Free Press ("Freep"), the Rag (Austin) and the Great Speckled Bird (Atlanta).
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