By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 9/14/12 12:14pm

Village People

Tony Ortega (Photo: Twitter)

Runnin’ Scared: Was Tony Ortega Pushed Out at the Village Voice?

The Village Voice’s EIC Tony Ortega announced in a blog post today that he is leaving the troubled alt-weekly to “pursue a book proposal about Scientology in its time of crisis.” Mr. Ortega attributed his departure to a desire to turn his “465 blog posts about Scientology” into a book that prompted him to make the jump, but sources with knowledge of the situation tell The Observer Mr. Ortega’s exit from the Voice was not his decision.  Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 4/26/11 11:42pm

Media

Village Voice Media Getting Down and Dirty with Escort Ads

Last week, deputies in Polk County, Fla., arrested 60 people–including a Disney employee, a man with breast implants, a 15-year-old runaway with a 2-year-old infant, and her pimp–in an online prostitution bust dubbed Operation Curtain Call. A year ago the sensational sting would likely have been the next in a long litany of tabloid-friendly Craigslist Read More

By Staff 10/19/07 11:17am

Village Voice Executives Arrested in Phoenix

Village Voice Media executive editor Mike Lacey and C.E.O. Jim Larkin were arrested in Phoenix last night on charges the newspaper revealed information that was sealed by the court as a part of a grand jury proceeding, The New York Times‘ David Carr reports.

Michael Lacey, the executive editor, and Jim Larkin, chief executive, Read More

By Michael Calderone 3/12/07 12:00am

Voice Publisher Rousts Its Editor After Bumpy Ride

On two occasions when executives of Village Voice Media came to visit The Village Voice’s then editor, David Blum, in New York, they asked for reservations at the Waverly Inn, Graydon Carter’s secret-phone-number-protected West Village eatery.

Mr. Blum’s bosses—in town from the Sun Belt and the West, where they built the New Times alternative-weekly chain—succeeded Read More