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94-534: The SoHo Weekly News was a weekly alternative newspaper founded by music publicist Michael Goldstein and published in New York City from 1973 to 1982. Positioned as a competitor to The Village Voice , it struggled financially. The paper was purchased by Associated Newspaper Group in 1979 and shut down three years later when AMG was unable to make it profitable. Many of the staff went on to have illustrious careers at other New York publications. The paper

188-461: A 30-page preview of the first issue of Ms. magazine, edited by Gloria Steinem . Gail Sheehy's "The Search for Grey Gardens", a cover story about the notorious mother -and- daughter Beale household of East Hampton, led to the Maysles brothers' acclaimed documentary . As the 1970s progressed, Felker continued to broaden the magazine's editorial vision beyond Manhattan, covering Richard Nixon and

282-511: A book-length history of the magazine and its city, published by Simon & Schuster and titled Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable: 50 Years of New York . The magazine also produced a commemorative issue and celebrated with a party at Katz's Delicatessen . That year, The Cut introduced its podcast, "The Cut on Tuesdays", produced jointly with Gimlet Media and hosted by one of the site's writers, Molly Fischer. In December 2018, New York 's fashion and beauty destination site, The Cut, carried

376-492: A competitor to Village Voice Media's LA Weekly , and Village Voice Media ceased publishing Cleveland Free Times , a competitor to New Times Media's Cleveland Scene . The US Justice Department launched an antitrust investigation into the agreement. The case was settled out of court with the two companies agreeing to make available the publishing assets and titles of their defunct papers to potential competitors. The Cleveland Free Times recommenced publication in 2003 under

470-463: A competitor. Kosner's magazine shifted the mix of the magazine toward newsmagazine-style cover stories, trend pieces, and pure "service" features—long articles on shopping and other consumer subjects—as well as close coverage of the glitzy 1980s New York City scene epitomized by financiers Donald Trump and Saul Steinberg . The magazine was profitable for most of the 1980s. The term "the Brat Pack "

564-604: A cradle of New Journalism . Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles about American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe , Jimmy Breslin , Nora Ephron , Pete Hamill , Jacob Weisberg , Michael Wolff , John Heilemann , Frank Rich , and Rebecca Traister . It was among the first " lifestyle magazines " meant to appeal to both male and female audiences, and its format and style have been emulated by many American regional and city publications. New York in its earliest days focused almost entirely on coverage of its namesake city, but beginning in

658-634: A few publish in smaller cities, in rural areas or exurban areas where they may be referred to as an alt monthly due to the less frequent publication schedule. Alternative papers have usually operated under a different business model than daily papers. Most alternative papers, such as The Stranger , the Houston Press , SF Weekly , the Village Voice , the New York Press , the Metro Times ,

752-605: A given theme that changed with each installment. (A typical entry, in a competition calling for humorous epitaphs, supplied this one for Geronimo: "Requiescat in Apache.") Altogether, Madden ran 973 installments of the competition, retiring in 2000. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of entries were received each week, and winners included David Mamet , Herb Sargent , and Dan Greenburg . David Halberstam once claimed that he had submitted entries 137 times without winning. Madden published three volumes of Competition winners, titled Thank You for

846-461: A hatchet, stated that, "I'm doing this in the name of art," chopped off two of his fingers, and walked out of the office, leaving the fingers behind. Benvenuti and his severed fingers were taken to Bellevue Hospital but doctors were unable to reattach the fingers. The paper's office was once bombed by a "leader of a radical organization" who was upset that his name had been misspelled in an article. The explosion injured two employees. In May 1978,

940-779: A lab leak instigated the COVID-19 epidemic; a cover package, "Ten Years Since Trayvon," about the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement; and "The Year of the Nepo Baby ," a widely discussed feature about dynastic career advancement in Hollywood. Lindsay Peoples became the editor of The Cut in 2021, and Vulture hired book critic Andrea Long Chu, who subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. New York magazine has long run literary competitions and distinctive crossword puzzles . For

1034-501: A magazine attached." On March 1, 2011, it was announced that Frank Rich would leave The New York Times to become an essayist and editor-at-large for New York . New York 's "Encyclopedia of 9/11", published on the tenth anniversary of the attacks, was described by Gizmodo as "heartbreaking, locked in the past, and entirely current"; the issue won a National Magazine Award for Single-Topic Issue. In October 2012, New York 's offices in lower Manhattan were without electricity in

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1128-564: A more national focus to GrubStreet.com. Vulture was launched as a pop culture blog on NYMag.com in 2007. It moved to an independent web address, Vulture.com, in 2012. In 2018, New York Media acquired the comedy news blog Splitsider , folding the operation into the Vulture website. In 2016, New York launched the Strategist , an expansion of a column from the print version of New York Magazine that aimed to help readers navigate shopping from

1222-554: A photojournalist producing his famous On the Street and Evening Hours columns. Richard Kostelanetz noted that The Village Voice , had been "founded ... by people residing within Greenwich Village, initially to provide them with cultural information about their community" and contrasted this with the SWN, stating that it had been "founded ... by an outsider" and that "Though the offices of

1316-480: A piece titled "Is Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas 's Love for Real?", that drew severe backlash from readers for accusing Chopra of trapping Jonas into a fraudulent relationship and calling her a "global scam artist". The publication removed the piece the following morning and issued an apology. In January 2019, Moss announced that he was retiring from the editorship. David Haskell , one of his chief deputies, succeeded him as editor on April 1, 2019. That spring,

1410-497: A pilot for a weekly. TV show based on its popular back-page feature, the Approval Matrix. New York 's art critic Jerry Saltz appeared as a judge on Bravo's reality competition series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist in 2010 and 2011. Grub Street senior editor Alan Sytsma appeared as a guest on judge on three episodes of the third season of Top Chef Masters . April 2018 was New York ' s 50th anniversary, marked with

1504-423: A relaunch that appeared on August 21. The new site was designed for an enhanced mobile-first experience and to better reflect the topics covered. In January 2018, The Cut published Moira Donegan's essay revealing her as the creator of the controversial " Shitty Media Men " list, a viral but short-lived anonymous spreadsheet crowdsourcing unconfirmed reports of sexual misconduct by men in journalism. That August,

1598-770: A successful music publicist. Among his clients were Jimi Hendrix , Frank Zappa , and the Grateful Dead ; 17 of the acts he represented were eventually inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame . Annie Flanders had been the fashion editor; very shortly after SWN closed, she organized a meeting of ex-staffers including Ronnie Cooke, Stephen Saban, Lesley Vinson, Megan Haungs, and Bill Cunningham to found Details magazine which ran from 1982 to 2015. Kim Hastreiter succeeded Annie Flanders as fashion editor; she and news reporter David Hershkovits went on to found Paper Magazine . Gerald Marzorati , art editor and Artful Dodger columnist,

1692-433: A viable medium or the challenge to The Village Voice they say they are." At the time, the paper had two salesman but was looking to hire three more and double both circulation and ad revenue by the end of the year. Stephen M. Blacker, associate publisher of The Village Voice , commented that he didn't "see them as real competition." The paper was an outspoken critic of the commercialization and gentrification of SoHo ,

1786-418: A year, Felker had assembled a team of contributors who would come to define the magazine's voice. Breslin became a regular, as did Nicholas Pileggi , Gail Sheehy , and Gloria Steinem , who wrote a politics column. Judith Crist wrote movie reviews. Harold Clurman was hired as the theater critic, then replaced a few months later by John Simon , who became notorious for his harsh reviews. Alan Rich covered

1880-691: A year-long relaunch, transforming from a site that principally republished the magazine's content to an up-to-the-minute news- and- service destination. In 2008, parent company New York Media also purchased the restaurant- and-menu site MenuPages as a complement to its own restaurant coverage, reselling it in 2011 to Seamless. With the launch of Grub Street, devoted to food, and Daily Intelligencer (later renamed just "Intelligencer"), its politics site, both in 2006; Vulture, its culture site, in 2007; and The Cut, its fashion-and-women's-interest site, in 2008, New York began shifting significant resources toward digital-only publication. These sites were intended to adapt

1974-616: Is a contingent of conservative and libertarian alt-weeklies. Styles vary sharply among alternative newspapers; some affect a satirical, ironic tone, while others embrace a more straightforward approach to reporting. Columns commonly syndicated to alternative weeklies include " The Straight Dope ", Dan Savage 's " Savage Love ", Rob Breszny's " Free Will Astrology ", and Ben Tausig 's crossword puzzle "Ink Well." Quirky, non-mainstream comics , such as Matt Groening 's Life in Hell , Lynda Barry 's Ernie Pook's Comeek , Ruben Bolling 's Tom

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2068-665: Is paid for by the subject of a story, but it earns revenue through affiliate advertising , including the Amazon Associates Program. In 2018, the Strategist experimented with a holiday pop-up shop called I Found It at the Strategist. In 2020, New York took over the Vox Media website Curbed , which had begun by covering New York City real estate and development since 2005 and had grown to cover urbanism and design news in many American cities. That October, Curbed relaunched as

2162-901: The Aquarian Weekly in North Jersey , the Colorado Springs Independent , the Good Times in Santa Cruz , California, New Times in San Luis Obispo and the Sun in Northern Santa Barbara County , California. Canadian examples of owner-operated, non-chain owned alternative papers include Vancouver's The Georgia Straight , Toronto's NOW Magazine , Edmonton's Vue Weekly and Halifax's The Coast . Examples outside

2256-743: The Hartford Advocate and New Haven Advocate . Creative Loafing , originally only an Atlanta -based alternative weekly, grew into Creative Loafing, Inc. which owned papers in three other southern U.S. cities , as well as the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper . Village Voice Media and New Times Media merged in 2006; before that, they were the two largest chains. The pre-merger Village Voice Media, an outgrowth of New York City's Village Voice , included LA Weekly , OC Weekly , Seattle Weekly , Minneapolis City Pages , and Nashville Scene . New Times Media included at

2350-664: The LA Weekly , the Boise Weekly and the Long Island Press , have been free, earning revenue through the sale of advertising space. They sometimes include ads for adult entertainment, such as adult bookstores and strip clubs , which are prohibited in many mainstream daily newspapers. They usually include comprehensive classified and personal ad sections and event listings as well. Many alternative papers feature an annual "best of" issue, profiling businesses that readers voted

2444-1148: The Pacific Sun , the Bohemian in California's Sonoma and Napa counties, the San Diego Reader , Isthmus in Madison, Wisconsin , Flagpole Magazine in Athens, Georgia , the Boulder Weekly , Willamette Week in Portland, Oregon , Independent Weekly , Yes! Weekly , Creative Loafing , and Triad City Beat in North Carolina , the Austin Chronicle in Texas , The Stranger in Seattle, Washington , Artvoice in Buffalo, New York ,

2538-459: The Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz wrote that "the nation's best and most-imitated city magazine is often not about the city—at least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense," observing that it was more regularly publishing political and cultural stories of national and international import. The magazine's first website, nymetro.com, was launched in 2001. In

2632-845: The East Village Eye , along with others with a further reach such as the Village Voice and New York Rocker. Their arts coverage ranged from local talent to mainstream. One article on dance included a performance in a Mercer Street loft alongside one at the Metropolitan Opera House by the American Ballet Theater . SWN was also known for their coverage of local artists struggling to make a name for themselves; Gary Indiana wrote in Artforum : There were plenty of artists of all types living there before this little boom thing in

2726-689: The National Magazine Awards and was named Magazine of the Year by the Society of Publication Designers (SPD) in 2006 and 2007. A 2008 cover about Eliot Spitzer 's prostitution scandal, created by the artist Barbara Kruger and displaying the word "Brain" with an arrow pointed at Spitzer's crotch, was named Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and Advertising Age . The next year, another cover, " Bernie Madoff , Monster",

2820-581: The New York perspective. The site joined other product review sites focusing on providing free product reviews to readers, generating affiliate commissions when readers would purchase a product they recommended. The early editorial team included editors David Haskell and Alexis Swerdloff. Popular recurring franchises include the celebrity-shopping "What I Can't Live Without" series, "Strategist-Approved" gift guides, and beauty reviews by influencer Rio Viera-Newton. The Strategist does not publish branded content that

2914-928: The Rolling Stones. Greenfield-Sanders has work on display at the Museum of Modern Art and the National Portrait Gallery , and was featured in American Master: The Boomer List on PBS . Weber's fashion photography was controversial for showing men clad only in underwear. Some of his earliest work in the SWN was described by the New York Times as "flagrantly erotic". He was famous for a 1983 billboard in Times Square showing Tom Hintnaus modelling Calvin Klein underwear; American Photographer featured

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3008-547: The Watergate scandal closely. He also launched New West , a sister magazine on New York 's model that covered California life, published in separate Northern California and Southern California editions. In 1976, journalist Nik Cohn wrote a story called " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night ", about a young man in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood who, once a week, went to a local disco called Odyssey 2001;

3102-485: The 1970s, it expanded into reporting and commentary on national politics, notably Richard Reeves on Watergate , Joe Klein 's early cover story about Bill Clinton , John Heilemann 's reporting on the 2008 presidential election that led to his (and Mark Halperin 's) best-selling book Game Change , Jonathan Chait 's commentary, and Olivia Nuzzi 's reporting on the first Trump administration . The New Republic praised its "hugely impressive political coverage" during

3196-545: The 1973 holiday season, [in which] the Weekly News took readers on a tour of more than two dozen neighborhood shops." Petrus also noted their "extensive classified section, listing lofts for rent or sale" which helped drive up rents, pricing artists and other renters without long term leases out of the area. In 1974, SWN inaugurated a Loft of the Week feature in which they highlighted opulent residences. The first installment covered

3290-422: The 22‐to‐35‐year old group, who grew up during the 60's going to rock concerts" but conceded that his market research consisted of seeing who was buying the paper at newsstands. Hank Weintraub, vice president of ad agency DienerHauser-Greenthal, stated that the paper's circulation and effectiveness were unproven and he would only place ads there when specifically requested by clients: "It has not proven itself to be

3384-507: The City of New York noted the paper's leading role in covering the New York music scene: New York fostered musical innovation in its varied venues, and as a global media capital it also provided the infrastructure to spread its new sounds locally, nationally, and inter-nationally. Influential print journalism and music criticism could be found in the pages of local outlets like The SoHo Weekly News and

3478-486: The City", he lamented the influx of wealthy people who could "buy a loft in SoHo and send an artist to Brooklyn" and that when people came to artist's lofts, they were coming more to look at the real estate than the artwork. Many SWN staff, 80 percent of whom were freelance in 1976, had notable careers before or after their association with the paper. The editorial team was led by founder Michael Goldstein who previously had been

3572-589: The Dancing Bug , and Ted Rall 's political cartoons are also common. The Village Voice , based in New York City , was one of the first and best-known examples of the form. Since the Voice's demise in 2018, Marin County 's Pacific Sun , founded in 1963, is now the longest-running alternative weekly. The Association of Alternative Newsmedia is the alternative weeklies' trade association. The Alternative Weekly Network and

3666-479: The English Associated Newspaper Group (ANG), led by Vere Harmsworth , took a 25% share in the SWN . Reportedly, this was in response to Rupert Murdoch , which whom Harmsworth had been feuding, having bought The Village Voice the previous year. A year later, Goldstein stated that the paper had an annual revenue of $ 1.1 million and their circulation was 60,000; it was reported, however, that

3760-666: The Giant Sea Tortoise , Son of Giant Sea Tortoise , and Maybe He's Dead: And Other Hilarious Results of New York Magazine Competitions . Beginning in 1980, the magazine ran an American-style crossword constructed by Maura B. Jacobson . Jacobson retired in April 2011, having created 1,400 puzzles for the magazine, after which the job passed to Cathy Allis Millhauser and then Matt Gaffney. In January 2020, Vulture began publishing daily 10x10 crosswords by two constructors, Malaika Handa and Stella Zawistowski. New York ' s news blog

3854-529: The Ruxton Group are national advertising sales representatives for alternative weeklies. Some alternative newspapers are independent. However, due in part to increasing concentration of media ownership , many have been bought or launched by larger media conglomerates . The Tribune Company , a multibillion-dollar company that owns the Chicago Tribune , owns four New England alternative weeklies, including

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3948-466: The SWN "was founded ... in part to exploit the success of the Voice , with a similar size and similarly weekly publication schedule". The paper's offices were at 111 Spring Street , Manhattan, although the earliest issues showed the address of Goldstein's apartment on the masthead. Circulation was reported as 25,000 – 30,000. One of the more unusual topics covered was a review of East Village drug merchants;

4042-598: The SoHo News were on Broadway below Houston Street, nearly all of its editors lived outside SoHo; most of its writers probably did as well". The SWN was known for its coverage of new musical artists in downtown New York. In 1975, the SWN was one of the first papers to interview The Ramones . According to Bernard Gendron: A number of other groups followed Television 's entry into CBGB 's. The Ramones debuted in August 1974 as did Blondie [...] The local rock critic establishment—at

4136-530: The United States and Canada include Barcelona's BCN Mes . New York (magazine) New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City . Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine , it was brasher in voice and more connected to contemporary city life and commerce, and became

4230-466: The Village Voice and New York Times—was slow to respond to the goings-on at CBGB's and not enthusiastic when it first did. During the length of the first wave, the brunt of local support came from the alternative press, initially the SoHo Weekly News and later the fanzines Punk and New York Rocker . In 1978, they ran an interview with Talking Heads . In their Video Lounge exhibit, the Museum of

4324-414: The addition of columnist Jonathan Chait in 2011 and the longtime political blogger Ed Kilgore in 2015. The Cut launched on the New York website in 2008, edited by Amy Odell, to replace a previous fashion week blog, Show & Talk . In 2012 it became a standalone website, shifting focus from fashion to women's issues more generally. Stella Bugbee became editor-in-chief in 2017, and presided over

4418-515: The best of their type in the area. Often these papers send out certificates that the businesses hang on their wall or window. This further cements the paper's ties to local businesses. Alternative newspapers represent the more commercialized and mainstream evolution of the underground press associated with the 1960s counterculture . Their focus remains on arts and entertainment and social and political reportage. Editorial positions at alternative weeklies are predominantly left -leaning, though there

4512-415: The classical-music scene. Barbara Goldsmith wrote a series called "The Creative Environment", in which she interviewed such subjects as Marcel Breuer , I. M. Pei , George Balanchine , and Pablo Picasso about their process. Gael Greene , writing under the rubric "The Insatiable Critic", reviewed restaurants , cultivating a baroque writing style that leaned heavily on sexual metaphor . The office for

4606-505: The co-creator of Spy , a humor monthly of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Andersen quickly replaced several staff members, bringing in emerging and established writers (including Jim Cramer , Walter Kirn , Michael Tomasky , and Jacob Weisberg ) and editors (including Michael Hirschorn, Kim France, Dany Levy , and Maer Roshan), and generally making the magazine faster-paced, younger in outlook, and more knowing in tone. In August 1996, Bill Reilly fired Andersen from his editorship, citing

4700-696: The creation of the Portland Phoenix . From 1992 through 2005, PM/GC owned and operated the Worcester Phoenix in Worcester, Massachusetts , but PM/GC folded that branch because of Worcester's dwindling art scene. Nonetheless, a number of owner-operated, non-chain owned alternative papers survive, among them Metro Silicon Valley in San Jose , Pittsburgh City Paper in Pittsburgh , Salt Lake City Weekly ,

4794-439: The decade, including James Brady , Joe Armstrong (who also served as publisher), John Berendt , and (briefly) Jane Amsterdam . In 1980, Murdoch hired Edward Kosner , the former editor of Newsweek , to replace Armstrong. Murdoch also bought Cue , a listings magazine founded by Mort Glankoff that had covered the city since 1932, and folded it into New York , simultaneously creating a useful going-out guide and eliminating

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4888-736: The downfall was a pending lawsuit by Susan Sontag which claimed that the SWN had violated her copyright when it printed a speech she had given about communism. John Leese was quoted as saying that attempts to sell the paper had been unsuccessful, even at a price described as "nominal". A New York Times op-ed by SWN editor Tim Page published shortly after the paper folded called SWN the "alternative to alternative papers" and "a most interesting little paper: breezy, intelligent, witty, joyously Epicurean, wildly uneven". The paper's contributors were described as an eccentric mix of "neo-conservatives and Marxists, radical feminists and hedonistic libertines, chronic potheads and antidrug crusaders". Page described

4982-500: The early 21st century, the magazine began to diversify that online presence, introducing subject-specific websites under the nymag.com umbrella: Vulture , The Cut , Intelligencer, The Strategist, Curbed , and Grub Street . In 2018, New York Media, the parent company of New York magazine, launched a digital subscription product for those sites. On September 24, 2019, Vox Media announced that it had purchased New York magazine and its parent company, New York Media. New York

5076-585: The first year of the magazine's existence, the composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim contributed an extremely complex cryptic crossword to every third issue. Sondheim eventually ceded the job in order to write his next musical, and Richard Maltby, Jr. took over . For many years the magazine also syndicated The Times of London's cryptic crossword. Beginning in early 1969, for two weeks out of every three, Sondheim's friend Mary Ann Madden edited an extremely popular witty literary competition calling for readers to send in humorous poetry or other bits of wordplay on

5170-714: The following March, reducing from 42 issues per year to 26 plus three special editions. In April 2016, the magazine announced the launch of Select All, a new vertical dedicated to technology and innovation. In 2019, Select All was shuttered and folded into the broadened "Intelligencer" news site. In the mid-2010s, New York launched several podcasts jointly produced with other outlets, all short-lived. Its first independently owned podcast, Good One: A Podcast About Jokes, hosted by Jesse David Fox, launched in February 2017. The magazine also expanded into television, collaborating with Michael Hirschorn's Ish Entertainment and Bravo to produce

5264-477: The home of fashion designer Valerie Porr, which they described as "[one of the] most fascinating spaces in SoHo". The paper touted the advantages of converted lofts, writing, "Living in a loft gives you a whole new dimension in space and space relationships to work with" Jim Stratton took a contrary stance. In response to a 1974 piece in New York Magazine which called SoHo "The Most Exciting Place to Live in

5358-488: The magazine about the best place to get a croissant or a beret, it was clear that Wasserstein wanted a publication that was the best place to learn about the complicated apparatus that is modern New York. In enabling as much, Mr. Wasserstein recaptured the original intent of the magazine's founder, Clay Felker ." Wasserstein's children retained control of the magazine, which continued to be overseen by his deputy Anup Bagaria. In 2006, New York 's website, NYMag.com, underwent

5452-587: The magazine has won several National Magazine Awards , including the award for general excellence in 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2016, as well as the 2013 award for Magazine of the Year. Since the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism opened to magazines as well as newspapers in 2016, New York ' s critics have won twice ( Jerry Saltz in 2018, and Andrea Long Chu in 2023) and been finalists twice more ( Justin Davidson in 2020 and Craig Jenkins in 2021). In 2009,

5546-501: The magazine laid off several staff members and temporary employees. On September 24, 2019, Vox Media announced that it had purchased the magazine's parent company, New York Media LLC. Pam Wasserstein, the CEO of New York Media, became Vox Media's president, working closely with its CEO, Jim Bankoff . After the merger with Vox Media, May 2020, Vox Media announced it was merging the real estate site Curbed into New York and refocusing

5640-426: The magazine was on the top floor of the old Tammany Hall clubhouse at 207 East 32nd Street, which Glaser owned. The magazine did not consistently turn a profit in these early years: One board member, Alan Patricof, later said that "it may have touched into the black for a quarter, then out of it, but it was not significantly profitable." Wolfe, a regular contributor to the magazine, wrote a story in 1970 that captured

5734-419: The magazine. The magazine's first website, under the url nymetro.com, appeared in 2001. In 2002 and 2003, Wolff , the media critic Miller had hired in 1998, won two National Magazine Awards for his columns. At the end of 2003, New York was sold again, to a family trust controlled by financier Bruce Wasserstein , for $ 55 million. Wasserstein, early in 2004, replaced Miller with Adam Moss , who had founded

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5828-464: The mid-’80s. Most of the ones I knew never expected to have any type of commercial success. The biggest thing that ever happened to them was a mention in the Village Voice or the Soho Weekly News. On November 26, 1979, 27-year-old Manhattan resident Henry Benvenuti walked into the SWN office and asked to see art editor Gerald Marzorati. After being told he could not see Marzorati, Benvenuti took out

5922-457: The neighborhood where it was located and concentrated its coverage. In a 2003 review of the revitalization of the SoHo neighborhood , Stephen Petrus argued that despite taking an editorial stance opposing gentrification, the SWN actually promoted it, "showcasing the galleries, boutiques, and restaurants", eschewing a role as neighborhood watchdog in favor of competing directly with The Village Voice. He gave as an example "a two-part series for

6016-408: The nightlife of city emerging from Covid lockdown; "The Year I Ate New York", written in 2022 by Tammie Taclamarian and in 2023 by E. Alex Jung; and a collection of limited-series newsletters devoted to Succession , …And Just Like That , and prominent New York City court cases. Notable stories published by New York in this decade include Nicholson Baker 's investigation of the possibility that

6110-553: The paper being particular well known for its early coverage of the Ramones . The SoHo Weekly News (SWN) was a weekly alternative newspaper published in New York City from 1973 to 1982. The paper was founded in 1973 by Michael Goldstein (1938–2018) who put out the first issue on October 11, 1973, using "his last $ 800" to fund operations. Initially published in eight pages, it eventually grew to over 100 pages and competed with The Village Voice . In SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artists's Colony , Richard Kostelanetz asserted that

6204-418: The paper in March. The recent unionization of the paper was cited as a factor in the decision. The last issue, dated March 10–16, 1982, had 40,000 copies printed. The day after the shutdown, the New York Times said the SWN had been "a weekly journal of counter-cultural news and opinion for New York City". Leese said the paper had lost $ 2 million in the previous year on operations with no prospects of making

6298-422: The paper profitable. Another spokesman put the total losses at $ 6 million. At the time of the shutdown, the staff numbered about 70 people, of which 25 were full-time reporters and editors. The next week, the Times reported in their national edition that despite growing circulation, the paper had needed to increase advertising by six pages per issue, which the owners did not believe was possible. Contributing to

6392-399: The paper was losing money. ANG bought out the remaining stake in 1979 and named John Leese as publisher and editor in chief. In the fall of 1981, ANG announced plans to close or sell the paper by February 1982. Although there were negotiations with possible purchasers, which continued beyond the original deadline, continuing losses ($ 1.7 million in the previous year) forced ANG to shut down

6486-414: The photo in 10 Pictures that Changed America , saying that Weber "made men the focal point of sexual attention; for the first time, they were sold as sexual objects", noting that the image appealed to both gay and heterosexual men as well as to women. Cunningham did a style feature, Bill Cunningham's Sunday , having been recruited by Annie Flanders. He then went on to a long career at the New York Times as

6580-423: The piece described various brands of heroin and cocaine that were available, their street names, and commented on the relative quality. In January 1976, The New York Times reported that the SWN was the second largest English-language weekly in the city, was being positioned as a direct competitor of The Village Voice , and was sold at 400 newsstands . Goldstein described the intended audience as "basically

6674-421: The poor physical condition of paper's office; a "plaster oven" in the summer, "drafty and underheated" in the winter, infested with "rats the size of dachshunds", and equipped with unreliable telephones and typewriters. Alternative newspaper Most metropolitan areas of the United States and Canada are home to at least one alternative paper. These papers are generally found in such urban areas, although

6768-510: The pop-science rubric Science of Us , which previously existed as a standalone site. In 2024, 'The Cut' published an article in which a woman confessed to abusing and neglecting her pet cat, Lucky. Advocates take to social media by storm seeking justice for Lucky. Grub Street , covering food and restaurants, was expanded in 2009 to five additional cities served by former nymag.com sister site MenuPages.com. In 2013 Grub Street announced that it would close its city blogs outside New York and bring

6862-490: The presidency of Barack Obama . It is also known for its arts and culture criticism, its food writing (its restaurant critic Adam Platt won a James Beard Award in 2009, and its Underground Gourmet critics Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld won two National Magazine Awards ), and its service journalism (its "Strategist" department won seven National Magazine Awards in eleven years. Since its sale, redesign, and relaunch in 2004,

6956-508: The publication group Kildysart LLC, while the assets of New Times LA were sold to Southland Publishing and relaunched as LA CityBeat . On October 24, 2005, New Times Media announced a deal to acquire Village Voice Media, creating a chain of 17 free weekly newspapers around the country with a combined circulation of 1.8 million and controlling a quarter of the weekly circulation of alternative weekly newspapers in North America. The deal

7050-658: The publication's financial results. According to Andersen, he was fired for refusing to kill a story about a rivalry between investment bankers Felix Rohatyn and Steven Rattner that had upset Henry Kravis , a member of the firm's ownership group. His replacement was Caroline Miller, who came from Seventeen , another K-III title. In part owing to the company's financial constraints, Miller and her editors focused on cultivating younger writers, including Ariel Levy , Jennifer Senior , Robert Kolker , and Vanessa Grigoriadis . She also hired Michael Wolff , whose writing about media and politics became an extremely popular component of

7144-554: The relaunched magazine, called New York , showcased the work of many talented Tribune contributors, including Tom Wolfe , Barbara Goldsmith , Gail Sheehy , Dick Schaap, and Jimmy Breslin . The Tribune went out of business in 1966, and New York was briefly revived as part of a combined paper, the World Journal Tribune , that lasted until May 1967. Shortly after the WJT closed, Felker and his partner, Milton Glaser , purchased

7238-488: The rights to the nameplate, backed by Wall Street bankers led by Armand G. Erpf (the magazine's first chairman, who Felker attributed as the financial architect of the magazine ) and C. Gerald Goldsmith (Barbara Goldsmith's husband at the time), and reincarnated the magazine as a stand-alone glossy weekly. Joining them was managing editor Jack Nessel, Felker's number-two at the Herald Tribune. New York 's first issue

7332-500: The short-lived New York weekly 7 Days and then edited The New York Times Magazine . That fall, Moss and his staff relaunched the magazine, most notably with two new sections: "The Strategist", devoted mostly to service, food, and shopping, and "The Culture Pages", covering the city's arts scene. Moss also rehired Kurt Andersen as a columnist. In early 2006, the company relaunched the magazine's website, previously nymetro.com, as nymag.com. New York in this period won design awards at

7426-414: The site also published "Everywhere and Nowhere," Lindsay Peoples's essay about the fashion industry's inhospitability to Black voices and points of view. In 2019, The Cut published an excerpt from E. Jean Carroll 's book, What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, mostly about Donald J. Trump 's sexual assault on her. In 2021, Peoples became the site's next editor-in-chief. The Cut also incorporates

7520-748: The site on its roots in New York City. That year, New York also expanded its podcast business, adding Pivot , On With Kara Swisher , Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel , Switched on Pop , and Into It With Sam Sanders to its lineup. The company also saw an expansion of its intellectual property into television and movies, notably with Hustlers , a feature film adapted from a story by Jessica Pressler. In 2022, three television series adapted from New York properties appeared: Inventing Anna and The Watcher on Netflix, and Sex Diaries on HBO. The magazine also moved into publishing an array of digital newsletters, including "Are U Coming?", which documented

7614-537: The spirit of the magazine (if not the age): " Radical Chic : That Party at Lenny's". The controversial and often criticized article described a benefit party for the Black Panthers , held in Leonard Bernstein 's apartment, in a collision of high culture and low that paralleled New York magazine's ethos and expressed Wolfe's interest in status and class. In 1972, New York ' s year-end issue incorporated

7708-462: The story was a sensation and served as the basis for the film Saturday Night Fever . Twenty years later, in a followup story in New York , Cohn admitted that he had made up the character and most of the story. In 1976, the Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch bought the magazine in a hostile takeover , forcing Felker and Glaser out. A succession of top editors followed through the remainder of

7802-448: The time of the merger Cleveland Scene , Dallas Observer , Westword , East Bay Express , New Times Broward-Palm Beach , Houston Press , The Pitch , Miami New Times , Phoenix New Times , SF Weekly and Riverfront Times . In 2003, the two companies entered into a non-competition agreement which stated that the two would not publish in the same market. Because of this, New Times Media eliminated New Times LA ,

7896-415: The urbane sensibility of the print magazine for a national and international audience, and attract readership that had been lost by print magazines in general, particularly fashion and entertainment outlets. By July 2010, digital ads accounted for one-third of the company's advertising revenue. David Carr noted in an August 2010 column, "In a way, New York magazine is fast becoming a digital enterprise with

7990-403: The week following Hurricane Sandy , so the editorial staff published an issue from a quickly constructed temporary newsroom in the midtown office of Wasserstein & Company. The issue's cover, shot by photographer Iwan Baan from a helicopter and showing Manhattan half in darkness, almost immediately became an iconic image of the storm; Time called it the magazine cover of the year. The image

8084-632: Was approved by the Justice Department and, on January 31, 2006, the companies merged into one, taking the name Village Voice Media. Phoenix Media/Communications Group , owner of the popular Boston alternative weekly the Boston Phoenix , expanded to Providence, Rhode Island in 1988 with their purchase of NewPaper , which was renamed the Providence Phoenix . In 1999, PM/CG expanded further through New England to Portland, Maine with

8178-455: Was coined for a 1985 cover story in the magazine. Murdoch got out of the magazine business in 1991 by selling his holdings to K-III Communications , a partnership controlled by financier Henry Kravis . Subsequent budget pressure from K-III frustrated Kosner, and he left in 1993, taking over the editorship of Esquire magazine. After several months during which the magazine was run by managing editor Peter Herbst, K-III hired Kurt Andersen ,

8272-588: Was created in 1963 as the Sunday-magazine supplement of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper. The Herald Tribune , then in financial difficulty, had recently been sold to John Hay Whitney , and was looking to revitalize its business with an increased focus on editorial excellence, which included a relaunch of the Sunday edition and its magazine. Edited first by Sheldon Zalaznick and then by Clay Felker ,

8366-644: Was dated April 8, 1968. Several writers came from the magazine's earlier incarnation, including Breslin, Wolfe (who wrote "You and Your Big Mouth: How the Honks and Wonks Reveal the Phonetic Truth about Status" in the inaugural issue), and George Goodman , a financial writer who wrote under the pseudonym " Adam Smith ." Glaser and his deputy Walter Bernard designed and laid out the magazine and hired many notable artists, including Jim McMullan , Robert Grossman , and David Levine , to produce covers and illustrations. Within

8460-474: Was introduced under the name Daily Intelligencer, expanding upon the weekly magazine's front-of-the-book Intelligencer section. Launched in 2006, it was initially written mostly by Jessica Pressler and Chris Rovzar, whose coverage focused on local politics, media, and Wall Street but also included extensive chatter about the television show Gossip Girl . Over its first half-decade, the site expanded in reach and became more focused on national politics, notably with

8554-461: Was known for its coverage of the Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood , which at the time was just starting to become fashionable. Although the official editorial stance was anti-gentrification, there have been arguments made that its coverage of local culture and business actually contributed to the upward trend in property values. Coverage of emerging music acts in local venues was particularly strong, with

8648-521: Was named Best News & Business Cover by ASME. New York won back-to-back ASME Cover of the Year awards in 2012 and 2013, for "Is She Just Too Old for This?" and "The City and the Storm" respectively. Design director Chris Dixon and photography director Jody Quon were named "Design Team of the Year" by Adweek in 2008. When Bruce Wasserstein died in 2009, David Carr of The New York Times wrote that "While previous owners had required constant features in

8742-601: Was reportedly the first journalist to write a major story about Keith Haring . Marzorati went on to work at The New Yorker , Harper's Magazine , and eventually the New York Times, where he edited the New York Times Magazine . The photography staff included Allan Tannenbaum , Timothy Greenfield-Sanders , Bruce Weber , and Bill Cunningham. Tannenbaum was known for his coverage of rock music, having photographed David Bowie , John Lennon and Yoko Ono , and

8836-606: Was republished as a poster by the Museum of Modern Art, with proceeds benefiting Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. The following spring, New York took the top honor at the National Magazine Awards, again receiving the Magazine of the Year award for its print and digital coverage. In December 2013, as readership for its digital sites continued to build, the magazine announced plans to shift the print edition to biweekly publication

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