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The Village Voice is a popular New York City weekly newspaper, featuring investigative articles, society, current affairs, culture, and listings for New York City. It was the first and is arguably the best known of the so-called alternative weeklies, arts-oriented tabloids that sprang up in the 1960s.The Voice was founded by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer in the fall of 1955. It has published groundbreaking investigations of New York City politics, as well as reporting on local and national politics, with arts, culture, music, dance, film and theater reviews.
The Voice has published many well-known writers, including Ezra Pound, Henry Miller, Katherine Anne Porter, James Baldwin, e. e. cummings, Nat Hentoff, Ted Hoagland, Tom Stoppard, Lorraine Hansberry, Jerry Tallmer, Allen Ginsberg, Murray Kempton, I.F. Stone, Pete Hamill, Michael Musto and Roger Wilkins.
Former editors have included Dan Wolf, Clay Felker, Tom Morgan, Marianne Partridge, David Schneiderman, Robert Friedman, Marty Gottlieb, Jonathan Larsen, and Karen Durbin.
The Voice's competitors in New York City include the New York Press, New York Observer and Time Out New York. In the late 1990s, competition from the free New York Press forced the Voice to become free.
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