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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 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, Ted Hoagland, Tom Stoppard, Lorraine Hansberry, Jerry Tallmer, Allen Ginsberg, Murray Kempton, I.F. Stone, Pete Hamill, 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 are the New York
Press and Time
Out New York. In the late 1990s, competition from the free New York Press forced the Voice to become a free
paper.
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